Opinions on this Newspaper Auto? Edit: Fake

[Prof]

Originally Posted by rand1com

Hard to be sure on the Turkey Red but it could be authentic based on your pictures. No guarantee though.

The autograph IMO is not authentic. Others will chime in.

I managed to disassemble the frame. You are totally right. Good eye.

The backside of the paper mentions Mantle and Maris home runs 'last year.' So, the paper is from late 1961 or 1962... and Cobb was dead by then.

I was assuming the auto was fake. The card seems good to me though

Here's the back of the newspaper if interested.

[rand1com]

That is one reason the forgeries are framed if there is a dead give away on the reverse that it cannot be authentic. But this one was pretty clearly "not authentic" from the signature.

[Prof]

*Noted.

That's why I want to avoid autographs. I don't trust them at all.