Signed T206 Green Cobb (Heritage)

[CMIZ5290]

Originally Posted by T206Collector

Alas, another beauty I will never own, and already at $52,500 and climbing, well over $10,000 more than any signed T206 card has ever sold for previously.



https://sports.ha.com/itm/baseball/s...mbnail-071515*

This one originally came to market in a 2002 Hunt Auction, nearly 20 years ago, here:

https://www.huntauctions.com/live/im...664&lot_qual=a

And we even (sort of) had a conversation about it 10 years ago on Net54:

https://net54baseball.com/showthread.php?p=836406

The auction listing says this is "the only example known!" But there are a few out there in hobby land, including this one from Jeff Morey’s collection:



Maybe one day prices will come back down to Earth, but I said the same thing 10 years ago, and I am starting to run out of decades to keep waiting...

The T in Ty looks weird to me, it almost looks like a very dark check mark.....I don't buy this as legit at all.....Pen pressure should not be that drastic...Is it traced?

[ullmandds]

i'd imagine ink pens might spurt heavier upon first pressing onto the card...creating the irregular looking T. Looks good to me.

[Aquarian Sports Cards]

Must've been elsewhere that I posted my thoughts, but I agree the stem of the T is at LEAST Cobb retracing the letter after he was done, with fresh ink. You can see something underneath that bold heavy pressure mark that doesn't match anything else in the signature. It certainly makes me curious at the very least. I also can't imagine selling it without at least discussing that oddity. Aren't we supposed to be done pretending the word of the 3rd party is sufficient? If you really want to go in depth, from everything I've seen his stem normally leans right to left coming down from the top, and this heavy mark is straight up and down, but I can see a leaning stem in a much more appropriate pressure line to the left of the heavy one. I think this one part of the autograph is a retrace. Again it could have been Cobb himself for some reason. I just hate not acknowledging such a strange characteristic. Heritage appears more interested in blaming concussions for Lou Gehrig's amyotrophic lateral sclerosis and Mickey Mantle's drinking in the description than, well, describing the item.

[Rhotchkiss]

I have been advised by people that I very much trust that the card and the auto is 100% authentic.

That said, I just flat out don’t trust PSA - they can’t catch easy alterations, how can they be expected to authenticate the autograph of a guy dead almost 60 years. Maybe this auto is good - I have no idea and I have been advised it is. But I think it being in a PSA flip is more of a liability than a comfort. F!@# PSA

[jad22]

I think I saw somewhere that this was one of the ones that Keurajian said was authentic.

[Mark17]

I think it's great that people enjoy collecting things, but I've never understood collecting high-end autographs. It seems that, unless there is bullet-proof provenance, there's always a debate as to whether it's real.

At least with midrange cards, there usually is never any lingering question as to whether the thing is real. Altered, perhaps, but genuineness isn't too difficult to ascertain. With autographs, the best you usually get is some consensus opinion, where maybe 90% of people are, on average, 80% confident it's real.

But nobody really knows for sure.

[packs]

Guess the skepticism has passed. To each their own but I'd never buy a signed T206 again.

[pokerplyr80]

If you want to drop 100k on a green cobb (or whatever this one closes at) you can get maybe a nice 7 that's probably been trimmed or cleaned at some point or a signed card that most seem to think is legit but may be faked. I would take the signed card for the money.

[Republicaninmass]

Originally Posted by packs

Guess the skepticism has passed. To each their own but I'd never buy a signed T206 again.

Just curious, how many had you bought previously?