Most Reputable Autograph Authenticators for Vintage Baseball

[Aquarian Sports Cards]

Mike Root of CAS. I doubt anyone is perfect but I have little reason to doubt how good he is. We use him for at LEAST the first opinion of everything in our auction. If there is a financial reason to use one of the big companies we do so after we gt his stamp of approval.

[egri]

As another poster mentioned, SGC doesn’t do autographs anymore; they stopped after they got lit up in the fake signed T206 scandal a couple years ago.

[earlywynnfan]

Originally Posted by egri

As another poster mentioned, SGC doesn’t do autographs anymore; they stopped after they got lit up in the fake signed T206 scandal a couple years ago.

At the very least, I give them props for realizing they were over their heads and bailed. Much different than just sweeping it under the rug until time makes people forget.

[perezfan]

Not sure if Jim Stinson is still doing it, but he was always very well respected by serious autograph collectors.

Another is Richard Albersheim. Below is a link with his info...

https://albersheims.com/aboutus.aspx

Best of luck!

[jingram058]

My really valuable Ruth baseball and two 1933 Goudey cards were/are authenticated by Harvey Brandwein, who I am told is one of the best.

[Republicaninmass]

I'd add Richard Simon to the names of knowledgeable authenticators

[ejharrington]

Thank you all for the suggestions.

[earlywynnfan]

I know this post was about vintage, but Mike Root lost a lot of cred with me in this thread:
https://www.net54baseball.com/showthread.php?t=266127

I agree with the above about the expertise on this forum. If I could get my items directly in front of Kevin Keating or Bill Corcoran, awesome. Otherwise, I'd trust this forum over any of the faceless entities.