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Is this guy legit

I have looked at several of these index card auctions and they seem way off compared to many in my collection....look at the Sparky Anderson very odd that 5 autos of him are already bid up to $37 dollars....I have watched his auctions for a week without bidding and there looks to be some heavy shill bidding going on

http://www.ebay.com/sch/m.html?_odkw=&_ssn=sportslot&_osaca...

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Permalink Reply by TradeGeek on January 31, 2016 at 5:39pm

I'm surprised the seller isn't offering a story behind these index cards.

One of the auctions has 15 John Gabler autographs. I had to look him up, 2 years of MLB experience. The cards appear to have been signed at different times. If somebody ran into a case of old index cards, I can't imagine they would have John Gabler on the list of names to forge.

I'm not sure what to make of these. There are some obscure names. There must be a story to them. Obsessive in the mail collector? (who sent 15 index cards ans SASE to John Gabler!)

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Permalink Reply by TradeGeek on January 31, 2016 at 6:00pm

Here are the index cards up for auction and another I found certified by PSA. Maybe the index cards are quite old. His autograph seems to have changed over time and become significantly worse as he got older.

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Permalink Reply by manny martinez on February 8, 2016 at 8:16pm

That is what I thought...why put up 10-50 autographs of the same guy without even saying where they came from...how they were obtained...etc....this seems fishy and what is really funny is that now that i posted this it seems like these lot sales are dwindling away....a while back he had a guy that passed away in 1966 and he had 20 or more of this guy....who had addresses of these people back then and who was asking a guy to sign 20-40 autographs in 1966. That is what really threw a red flag up to me

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Permalink Reply by manny martinez on February 8, 2016 at 8:21pm

I had to refresh my memory it was Babe Adams ...he died in 1968 and he had a total of 48 index cards of him which he sold in 5 separate lots....and this one i did not catch he had a bunch of his graph in blue sharpie...LOL blue sharpie used in 1968....that is really fishy....no it is fraudulent