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[itjclarke]

Originally Posted by pawpawdiv9

Put me in the boat for the 51 Mays Rookie AUTO...it was nice!!! The card maybe was in the 3-ish grade. I had a snipe ready and all.
Boy was I wrong!!!! It stood at about 1800 with a few hrs left...I said maybe I had hopes of winning..SHHHISSS it went for 3,350
http://www.ebay.com/itm/1951-Bowman-...vip=true&rt=nc
[img]http://i.ebayimg.com/images/g/-MAAAO...WWP/s-l500.jpg[/img]

Curious what the autograph experts on this board thought about that one. GAI LOA, but then saw stuff posted on line saying GAI was still pretty well trusted when that authenticator (Mike Gutierrez) was there.

I found some old Mays autograph pics on line, but couldn't find any that looked like that (that said, didn't spend much time looking). Was an intriguing card to me, but also made me a little nervous.

[pawpawdiv9]

Originally Posted by itjclarke

Curious what the autograph experts on this board thought about that one. GAI LOA, but then saw stuff posted on line saying GAI was still pretty well trusted when that authenticator (Mike Gutierrez) was there.

I found some old Mays autograph pics on line, but couldn't find any that looked like that (that said, didn't spend much time looking). Was an intriguing card to me, but also made me a little nervous.

I had that feeling as well, I kept asking myself- Why is this not graded/holdered already??? Would it not command more money???
And if I did win it, I got to factor in cost to send it off to do so and hope its not a worst case scenario.
I love to hear others chime in too on the auto.

[bender07]

Originally Posted by pawpawdiv9

I had that feeling as well, I kept asking myself- Why is this not graded/holdered already??? Would it not command more money???
And if I did win it, I got to factor in cost to send it off to do so and hope its not a worst case scenario.
I love to hear others chime in too on the auto.

I'm quite confident that's a wife or secretarial signed Mays.

[Peter_Spaeth]

Originally Posted by bender07

I'm quite confident that's a wife or secretarial signed Mays.

How can you tell?

[bender07]

Originally Posted by Peter_Spaeth

How can you tell?

There have been plenty of threads on this type of Mays autograph on the Auto side of the house:

http://www.net54baseball.com/showthr...highlight=mays

http://www.net54baseball.com/showthr...ys+secretarial

[Peter_Spaeth]

Originally Posted by bender07

There have been plenty of threads on this type of Mays autograph on the Auto side of the house:

http://www.net54baseball.com/showthr...highlight=mays

http://www.net54baseball.com/showthr...ys+secretarial

So once again an authenticator blew it and someone paid a lot of money based on it. Nice.

[itjclarke]

Originally Posted by Peter_Spaeth

So once again an authenticator blew it and someone paid a lot of money based on it. Nice.

This was the sig I found on line that cast the most major doubt with me. I know his early 1950's sigs had a very legible W and M.. But saw this check from 1961 which did as well. Per the LOA on the GAI Mays, it was supposed to have been signed at a game in 1958.

The signed rookie also seemed super bold to me. Most sigs I got at games as a kid were pretty sloppy and quick... Not to say that's applicable here, but just my experience. Regardless the 1961 check sig looks nothing like this supposed 1958 sig.