February Roach's Corner auction is LIVE now

[perezfan]

I'll say what nobody wants to say about this shady outfit (as it's way more fun to criticize the really bad items). But some of the items (albeit very few) actually look good. Is there any chance that some unsuspecting collector consigns a "good" piece to Coach's Corner and that Morales or STAT authenticate it? Some "fringe" autograph collectors may be incredibly naive and think this is a good place to consign.

If so, what percent of Morales/STAT authenticated mdse. is actually good? I will set this up as a New Thread/poll question, and please be honest with your answers. There have been a very few pieces that apprear to be authentic, and have the STAT/Morales blessing, so this may be interesting...

[tinkereversandme]

What you should do is simply click below and here are all the wonderful items authenticated by Morales:

http://www.myccsa.com/Search.aspx?SearchText=morales

My favorites: Christy Mathewson Single Signed Baseball, Geronimo Cut Signature, Babe Ruth Signed Jersey, Josh Gibson Single Signed Baseball, Tour Of Japan Signed Bat, Lou Gehrig Signed Jersey, Christy Mathewson Signed Book, ANY 19th Century Scrap Of Paper Signed (Keeler, Chesbro, Ewing, Keefe, Hamilton, Anson +) and how do they get so many complete signed sports items like jerseys?

In buying autographs, the most important thing is the source. Do you think Lifson and the big boys are looking for a deal here? There is a reason why none of this stuff ends up in their auctions and sells for almost nothing. After all, all the items above are limited to Coach's only and wouldn't Robert Edward like a few of these items?

My favorite thing last month was that they had a Walter Payton signed card PSA/DNA slabbed and it sold for $167 and a 1967 Roberto Clemente Topps card sold for $163.

The Payton is valued at around $125 and the Clemente at around $1500-2000.

You would think that this kind of research (if they believed their stuff was authentic) would have them approach the business as if...they used PSA/DNA, it could improve their sales...but these guys know what they are doing. They are all smarter than us.

My two cents...

Larry

[keithsky]

It's funny because last months auction they had a Ruth and gehrig signed ball that was PSA authenticated as lot number1 that went for something like 15,000.00. If it was Stat or Morales it would have been about half that or less. Wouldn't you think as a auction company seeing the prices realized with a PSA or JSA item you would dump Morales and Stat in a heartbeat. Something more going on there than we all know.

[Forever Young]

http://www.myccsa.com/Lot.aspx?LotID=196199

[perezfan]

That's probably the worst Maris forgery I have EVER seen...

[J.McMurry]

Thats the first fake Maris I've seen where the forger actually tried to duplicate the "sweeping" curve of the "M". Still terrible looking forgery,but tells me this guy is doing his homework and is trying to improve apon the mistakes of past forgers.

[Griffins]

How did these guys escape Operation Bullpen? Sorry for the naivete, but I don't understand how they can get away with this for so long.