James Spence

[SetBuilder]

I don't believe those signatures are secretarial. The experts could be wrong.

Mathewson's usual signature length is very small. If you look at all of his signed album pages and other items, the signature remains under 3" in length. Most signed checks have signatures measuring < 2.75". Mathewson had tiny handwriting.

The bookplate pasted on the front board of Won In The 9th measures around 5 inches, with the blank space for the signature nearly the entire 5 inches across.

If Mathewson decided to enlarge his signature for whatever reason, maybe to make it more bold, or to take up all of the 5 inches, his handwriting traits could have changed. Doubling the size of his signature may have caused this change, which manifest as some atypical traits. Could be the result of exaggerating the size of his normal handwriting.

Besides, why would he hire a secretary to sign the 500 bookplates? Was he so busy? That's kind of weird. Did ballplayers back in 1910 usually have secretaries?

[slidekellyslide]

Ten bucks says the majority of comments at the end of Nash’s articles are written by Nash himself.

[bnorth]

Originally Posted by slidekellyslide

Ten bucks says the majority of comments at the end of Nash’s articles are written by Nash himself.

That could be but one of them at the end of this article brought a smile to my face as i thought it was spot on.

[David Atkatz]

Originally Posted by SetBuilder

Besides, why would he hire a secretary to sign the 500 bookplates? Was he so busy? That's kind of weird. Did ballplayers back in 1910 usually have secretaries?

It's not weird at all. The publisher took care of the whole thing. The "signer" worked for the publisher, not Mathewson. Mathewson never even saw those books.

[Runscott]

Originally Posted by SetBuilder

I don't believe those signatures are secretarial. The experts could be wrong.

Mathewson's usual signature length is very small. If you look at all of his signed album pages and other items, the signature remains under 3" in length. Most signed checks have signatures measuring < 2.75". Mathewson had tiny handwriting.

The bookplate pasted on the front board of Won In The 9th measures around 5 inches, with the blank space for the signature nearly the entire 5 inches across.

If Mathewson decided to enlarge his signature for whatever reason, maybe to make it more bold, or to take up all of the 5 inches, his handwriting traits could have changed. Doubling the size of his signature may have caused this change, which manifest as some atypical traits. Could be the result of exaggerating the size of his normal handwriting.

Besides, why would he hire a secretary to sign the 500 bookplates? Was he so busy? That's kind of weird. Did ballplayers back in 1910 usually have secretaries?

You make good points; however, there are major tells in the secretarial signatures that indicate a different signer from MOST of his checks, and increasing the size of his signature would not have affected these. Look at the left of the 'M'. There are many, but that's an obvious one.

I want to add that I would never fault anyone for their analysis of Matty's autograph. It's not an easy one to understand - Ruth, Cobb, Wagner, Williams, Mantle are much easier to figure out. If someone has a secret 'key' to Matty autographs, please send it to me and I will trade whatever information on autographs I might have (it's not much).

[T206Collector]

Just skimmed the article and saw this comment:

LOL anyone who collects rare “autographs” that are not from an original check is a moron. Like that Mufsud character and his phony “signed” T206s.

Comment by Mastro Monkey — October 4, 2018 @ 10:14 am

Whoa! Anonymous shot across the bow! That's not very nice!!

[36GoudeyMan]

Sorry if this is egregiously naive, but, if all of these TPAs are sniping and disproving each other, who can you trust?

[slidekellyslide]

Originally Posted by T206Collector

Just skimmed the article and saw this comment:

LOL anyone who collects rare “autographs” that are not from an original check is a moron. Like that Mufsud character and his phony “signed” T206s.

Comment by Mastro Monkey — October 4, 2018 @ 10:14 am

Whoa! Anonymous shot across the bow! That's not very nice!!

Nash knows that Net54 is reading his blog. Someone (probably him) once used my name to leave a comment and it sure wasn't me. He's worthless.

[shelly]

Originally Posted by slidekellyslide

Nash knows that Net54 is reading his blog. Someone (probably him) once used my name to leave a comment and it sure wasn't me. He's worthless.

Whatever you think about him. He has proved that many things that have been sold in the past have been fake items with a high price tag.

[slidekellyslide]

Originally Posted by shelly

Whatever you think about him. He has proved that many things that have been sold in the past have been fake items with a high price tag.

He’s also done some despicable things and not paid for it. Are we supposed to forget that?

[Leon]

Originally Posted by slidekellyslide

He’s also done some despicable things and not paid for it. Are we supposed to forget that?

I am almost to the point of not allowing links to the criminal's site. One member was banned because he was too close with Nash. Nash is a criminal and should be behind bars, period.

[shelly]

Originally Posted by slidekellyslide

He’s also done some despicable things and not paid for it. Are we supposed to forget that?

I agree with you one hundred percent that he is a bad guy.
I am just saying that he has done research that has proven many items that sold for a lot of money have been fakes.

[Leon]

Nash is (himself) most of the people posting on his site, if not all of them, is my guess. He posts all of that crap with different names but it is him posting. I think he likes to think he is something when he is less than nothing. Anyone who reads his site, thinking they are reading the truth, is a fool.

Originally Posted by T206Collector

Just skimmed the article and saw this comment:

LOL anyone who collects rare “autographs” that are not from an original check is a moron. Like that Mufsud character and his phony “signed” T206s.

Comment by Mastro Monkey — October 4, 2018 @ 10:14 am

Whoa! Anonymous shot across the bow! That's not very nice!!

[Marckus99]

If you have $5k or $10k to waste on an autograph, glad you got burned!

TPG mean nothing.
Do your own research!!!!

- Mark