JSA, really?! Come on

[Runscott]

Originally Posted by MikeKam

Agreed.

To me it's the same as Honus Wagner signatures. His signature was quite elaborate when he was younger but deteriorated with age, yet I feel many here are confident in identifying a later in life Wagner signature.

Yes, and if you look at PSA's site, you'll see exemplars of Wagners "deteriorated" signature - same for any player whose signature changed drastically. They are common knowledge. Not so for this Koufax example.

[MikeKam]

Originally Posted by Runscott

Yes, and if you look at PSA's site, you'll see exemplars of Wagners "deteriorated" signature - same for any player whose signature changed drastically. They are common knowledge. Not so for this Koufax example.

Who is to say these companies have not already compiled exemplars?

[Runscott]

Originally Posted by MikeKam

Who is to say these companies have not already compiled exemplars?

I have no idea what kind of hocus-pocus is going on in the TPAs' exemplar compilation area, but you would think that if it is such a well-known "crowd" signature, that there would be publicly-available exemplars.

It certainly is not "just like" what happened with Honus Wagner's signature.

[djson1]

Aside from all this TPA arguing, I just want to say that I would never pay that much for a horrible shaky Koufax signature (assuming that it IS authentic).
As Shelly pointed out in a previous thread, some recent Steiner certed Koufax sigs are showing signs of serious aging (like Aaron's). Up until just a year or so ago, Koufax' signature was really nice and flowing. There are plenty of them to still go around and probably under $300. Go buy one of those before resorting to one of his recent shaky ones.

[Runscott]

Originally Posted by djson1

Go buy one of those before resorting to one of his recent shaky ones.

So you know there are recent shaky ones that look like this?

Unless you are the one, I'm surprised there isn't anyone here who has recently gotten Koufax' autograph. At least if we found that it hadn't changed, this could only be, as Steve suggested, a "crowd signature", or bogus.

I agree with others that TPA's should certainly authenticate it if it is legit. The decision to purchase or not is personal.

[djson1]

Originally Posted by Runscott

So you know there are recent shaky ones that look like this?

I didn't know it got this shaky until recently when I saw some Steiner certed Koufax balls that were pretty shaky. I'm not sure how Steiner has his signings set up, but I would assume the player is seated at a table with a Steiner rep watching....and yet some recent examples were pretty bad.

[shelly]

Originally Posted by djson1

I didn't know it got this shaky until recently when I saw some Steiner certed Koufax balls that were pretty shaky. I'm not sure how Steiner has his signings set up, but I would assume the player is seated at a table with a Steiner rep watching....and yet some recent examples were pretty bad.

The only ball we have seen so far from spring training looks good. Do you have any examples of what you are talking about from the signings. It would be a big help.
I have looked at ever steiner ball on ebay and not one look like the one we where shown at the start of this thread.