Very interesting read, and sad....

[David R]

Mr. Nash certainly seems to be a bad apple with a motive to publish bad things about REA. That being said, it seems troubling to me that the big red "BOB" and the nature of the paper loss on the back of that very rare piece did not raise red flags with either SGC (who slabbed it) or REA (that put the piece in their auction). I am fairly new to collecting vintage so I was unfamiliar with the Hall of Fame's practice of placing a red "PD" on the back of pieces like this, but it seems fairly well known to some other collectors and I would think folks like SGC and REA would know such things? Is that too much to expect?