Cy Young Authentication Help

[Runscott]

Originally Posted by ScottR81

I posted a 1953 post card in this thread.....please tell me your not referring to mine??!

No, I saw yours and it doesn't have the same loop characteristic at the bottom of the letters. Looks much different in my opinion.

Edited to add: Scott, I'm just a guy with eyeballs and an attention to detail - not an authenticator. I have seen many authenticated autographs that might be good, but I wouldn't touch them. I've also seen plenty that weren't authenticated that I would not hesitate to purchase. The obvious rebuttal to my comments on Young's signature would be: "Yeah, but he COULD have signed it that way." Similar to the comments about the Ted Williams one that I didn't like: "Perhaps it was after his stroke". Hell I even got bashed on that thread for insensitivity toward stroke victims. Same for the Gehrig-signed items that feature one of his oddball, seldom-seen signatures. Or balls like the Gehrig/Ruth one owned by the 'super base-ball collector'. If you want to buy something like that, that you think 'could have' been signed by the player, then you need to be ready for the bad news down the road.

Just my opinion. I don't acquire any of my signed items for re-sell, so what others think about them really doesn't matter to me, and whatever I write here is probably just of entertainment value, if that. I am certainly entertained by these threads, and have learned a lot from guys like Richard Simon who post here.