Pawn stars: mantle/may/kill photo

[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.

[travrosty]

i never once said it wasnt embarrasing for the fde.

is there a reason that he was only on there once? and why not spell out your whole name and place of business if you know you are going to be on a show on national tv in front of 6.6 million viewers? what's that deal? Free advertising for 6 million and no thanks? i will just go by the name bob?

It's because the error was so spectacular, getting the very first thing wrong that authenticators must know before they even start looking at the handwriting. That being the subject of their research. No one called an FDR a Teddy Roosevelt.

[thetruthisoutthere]

Originally Posted by travrosty

i never once said it wasnt embarrasing for the fde.

is there a reason that he was only on there once? and why not spell out your whole name and place of business if you know you are going to be on a show on national tv in front of 6.6 million viewers? what's that deal? Free advertising for 6 million and no thanks? i will just go by the name bob?

It's because the error was so spectacular, getting the very first thing wrong that authenticators must know before they even start looking at the handwriting. That being the subject of their research. No one called an FDR a Teddy Roosevelt.

No, Travis, Drew Max, even with his hubble-sized magnifying glass examination, wasn't able to see that the signature of FDR was a reproduction. As a matter of fact, Drew Max emphatically states "When you put it all together, there's only one conclusion, this thing is definitely authentic." I guess you don't consider that a major blunder, Travis.

[travrosty]

its a blunder, but not near as big as getting the entire subject wrong.
that one was for the books.

[thetruthisoutthere]

Here's one for the books. A Willie Mays signed card. It was signed by the wife of Willie Mays. Todd Mueller certed it and sold it. When confronted about the fact that the Mays was signed by the wife of Willie Mays, Mueller replied "I got Willie Mays in person at the Portland interntational airport on Sept 8, 1988 and Willie signed on my shoulder."

What a joke!!! That autograph was signed on a shoulder? OMG!!!

Mueller-Mays-WifeSigned.jpg

[travrosty]

Chris,

you know you are not telling the truth.

Todd said he had a similar mays autograph that looked like that and he had met mays at the airport and got mays autograph and it looked similar. Not that same one, as a matter of fact he said he still had the mays autograph that he got signed at the airport, and I don't blame him because most people like to keep the personal momentos of stars they get in person and sell the other ones that they buy or trade for.

go back and look at the transcript and try again.