FAKE Ruth Gehrig Barnstorming Poster

[bobfreedman]

I saw the listing about 3 months ago and I was very interested in this piece however I was cautious based on the images and did compare them to the one in REA as well. I forwarded the link on to Rob Lifson and asked for his opinion and he expressed using an abundance of caution over the one on eBay.

The seller is a very nice person and seems honest enough when I talked to him and he even has a report done by a professional firm that did authenticate the age of the piece being from the 20's. He forwarded it on to me and it all checked out.

I did forward the images on to a couple of other "experts" and they all did not like the piece and that is basically what convinced me to stay away from it. One other thing that bothered me was that the seller agreed to sell the piece for $2,000 and my thought was that if it is too good to be true....