Authenticity question

[barrysloate]

They look like they were all signed by the same person...and I'm not an expert, just making an observation.

[Runscott]

Originally Posted by barrysloate

They look like they were all signed by the same person...and I'm not an expert, just making an observation.

I'm with Barry. Looks like he worked real hard on his 'Mantle' and should have stopped there.

edited to add: only added my comment because the 'Williams' has an odd 'T' that would have kept me away from this item.

[bbcard1]

FWIW, I am sure that it came from The Scoreboard who was working with HSN at the time. While there are a lot of problems with the SB, I am not sure fraudulent autos were among them.

[RichardSimon]

There are an awful lot of fraudulently reproduced Scoreboard COA's out there that Scoreboard had nothing to do with.

[drc]

In recent years, I watched the late night HSN sports autographs show starring Kenny Goldin, former President of SB. The autographs were all way overpriced but appeared genuine. So I have no doubt the HSN could be a source for genuine autographs.

[thetruthisoutthere]

We should also note that approximately $750,000 in forgeries were sold by the home shopping shows back in the 1990's.

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[Mr. Zipper]

Originally Posted by drc

In recent years, I watched the late night HSN sports autographs show starring Kenny Goldin, former President of SB. The autographs were all way overpriced but appeared genuine. So I have no doubt the HSN could be a source for genuine autographs.

Correct. There is a lot of misinformation out there regarding Scoreboard. In the late 80s - mid 90s, Scoreboard was the Steiner of its day. I bought several items with ScoreBoard certs through a shopping show and they are as good as gold.

In later years after Paul Goldin (the father died), Ken Goldin (the son) took over and the business started to struggle. They got into a bad deal with DiMaggio for a relatively high fee. After completing his Scoreboard obligations, DiMaggio really screwed them over by then signing a ton of balls at a lesser price for other dealers... completely devaluing all the stuff he signed for ScoreBoard.

In their decline, there were rumors of some questionable stuff coming from Scoreboard, but I have yet to see one iota of evidence other than rumors.

Unfortunately, the ScoreBoard COA was s simple piece of paper that was easily replicated. Chances are bogus material with a "ScoreBoard COA" isn't a real ScoreBoard coa.

[thetruthisoutthere]

I will also echo Richard's comment about the Scoreboard cert; it has been edited and copied over the years in an effort to sell forgeries under the Scoreboard COA.

A good example is a Mickey Mantle autographed bat with a Scoreboard COA; Mantle never signed bats for Scoreboard. Never.