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Permalink Reply by john reznikoff on November 21, 2010 at 7:09am

Mine and James Spences opinion is that all these items are likely forgeries.

Permalink Reply by Fuddjcal on November 21, 2010 at 11:28am

wow, those are just horrible. Same tired poses, of the same tired forgeries. These can be purchased for a song on E-bay as about 1/2 the buyers are starting to figure the scam out. A GAI Mantle & Williams sold for 24.95 on e-bay the other day.

When anyone says item "comes with a COA", run don't walk away from the deal. Most likely, they are a scammer with a Birdchick, STAT, TTA or some other horrid forgery supporting company like AAU. Lot's of trash from that crook showing up lately too advertising as 'Pawn Stars Authentictor".

If we could get Birdchicks garbage off of e-bay that would be a victory.

Permalink Reply by Steve Cyrkin, Admin on November 21, 2010 at 1:41pm

Drew Max is AAU out of Las Vegas.

Permalink Reply by Steve Cyrkin, Admin on November 21, 2010 at 1:44pm

I don't know about these to give opinions on authenticity, but the name Nicholas Burczyk has only appeared associated with forgeries. We're not even sure he really exists.

Permalink Reply by Jeffery Kite on November 21, 2010 at 3:49pm

Wow! I have never laughed so hard at you guys' responses! Especially you, fuddjcal! Steve, thank you so much for this forum so that people like me can network and become better educated collectors. And Gary, I am a probation officer by day and an autograph collector by night, so I already had plans to go to one of our investigators at the sheriff's office to see if they want to pursue anything, if these did not check out. And Big John Reznikoff, the things I noticed were: Duke Snider has never had a gap in his last name that I have ever seen, Willie Mays' famous "swoosh" at the top of his M's have always been tight and not all loosy goosy like these, Mickey Mantle ALWAYS signed in non-dark areas where you could see all of his signature (see pictures #1 and #2) and never curved his Y at the bottom (see picture #3,) and Ted Williams never had a big huge gap between the W and i in his last name. Thanks to everyone who responded. Please feel free to copy these and use these in your fakes and forgery exemplars.

Permalink Reply by john reznikoff on November 22, 2010 at 6:16pm

A nice example of mantle, mays and snider is on the title page of a book about the three that just sold at heritage auctions.