Pawn stars: mantle/may/kill photo

[travrosty]

I love to watch the show, watching authenticators strut in like they know everything. saying "what do we have here?" when they have already been provided the autograph far in advance.

[thecatspajamas]

Yeah, I especially find it funny when the "what do we have here" comment is followed by pulling out a photocopied sheet of exemplars for the signer in question. Maybe that's what Drew is carrying around in his case besides that magnifying glass: his exemplar file?

Staged or not, it is fun to see what just "walks through the door" on that show. Nothing like any pawn shop I've ever been in!

[mcgwirecom]

Yeah I loved that show with Mary Ford's nephew. Sweet 1961 SG Les Paul. I wonder if he really sold it to them.

[travrosty]

Rick doesn't know a lot about autographs, particularly sports.

There was a bad Sonny Liston siganture on a ringside bell.

He also said that Sonny Liston's autograph wasn't worth much because all those boxers signed a lot right up until the day he died.

So Rick thought the bell might be worth a few hundred, with no added value even if the signature was good. wrong.

Of course Liston died fairly young, in Las Vegas no less, and he didn't like to sign and avoided signing much of the time. So to say a blanket statement that boxers signed a lot right up to the day they died was not doing his homework on Liston.

A real signature on that bell would have added value to it. Drew Max rightfully knocked down that signature, calling it fake.

[GrayGhost]

You are right bout the Liston Bell deal. It was Richard SR who liked the Bell and Corey (big Hoss) was trying to make the deal, and made the autograph comments.

Max cracks me up tho, the huge Magnifier is a riot, w nothing else in that Monster Sachel.

[thetruthisoutthere]

Gotta love this blunder by Drew Max, Forensic Document Examiner, when he examined the below FDR Letter To Clergy on the Pawn Stars.

After Drew examined the FDR Letter To Clergy he states "When you put it all together, there's only one conclusion, this thing is definitely authentic."

Travis wrote "I love to watch the show, watching authenticators strut in like they know everything. saying "what do we have here?" when they have already been provided the autograph far in advance."

If Drew Max, FDE, had so much time in advance, how could he not know that the FDR Letter To Clergy was a reproduction mailed to approximately 121, 700 members of the clergy? How can an FDE (Drew Max) examining an item (a letter) in his field, make that big of a blunder?

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[RichardSimon]

Originally Posted by travrosty

Rick doesn't know a lot about autographs, particularly sports.

There was a bad Sonny Liston siganture on a ringside bell.

He also said that Sonny Liston's autograph wasn't worth much because all those boxers signed a lot right up until the day he died.

So Rick thought the bell might be worth a few hundred, with no added value even if the signature was good. wrong.

Of course Liston died fairly young, in Las Vegas no less, and he didn't like to sign and avoided signing much of the time. So to say a blanket statement that boxers signed a lot right up to the day they died was not doing his homework on Liston.

A real signature on that bell would have added value to it. Drew Max rightfully knocked down that signature, calling it fake.

I can imagine Liston a guest at a baseball card show,,,
Flats- $75
Gloves - $150
Bells - $800
and $8 to have a TPA rep. , who is not watching, to put a sticker on it .
sorry, no personalizations.

[travrosty]

I was thinking of someone else, with a zero batting average, much bigger mistakes and much more embarrassing, so much it made the papers.

[thetruthisoutthere]

Originally Posted by travrosty

I was thinking of someone else, with a zero batting average, much bigger mistakes and much more embarrassing, so much it made the papers.

Oh that's right, it's not embarrassing for a Forensic Document Examiner (Drew Max) not to be able to differentiate between an original signature and a reproduced signature, but it's okay for you to rip someone that was on the show one time and got the signature wrong.