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Permalink Reply by Steve Zarelli on March 30, 2018 at 12:55pm

Highly suspect in my opinion.

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Permalink Reply by terrier8HOF on March 30, 2018 at 1:07pm

I agree.  especially the caption, very slowly signed.

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Permalink Reply by Steve Zarelli on March 30, 2018 at 1:09pm

IMO this is a previously recognized style. This forger likes the inscriptions. I think he is also responsible for many of the Mantle items that have obscene inscriptions.

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Permalink Reply by Mike on March 30, 2018 at 1:20pm

If you start with the signature, this looks real to me. Obviously it would be unusual for Mantle to sign just the top half of the sweet spot. As for the inscription, it is signed in the effeminate writing that Mantle inscriptions appear in. I am going to say this is good all together.

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Permalink Reply by terrier8HOF on March 30, 2018 at 2:21pm

I did start with the signature in this case, and it looks off to me.  The inscription makes it worse.  here is an example that I would not mind owning, and I see major flaws in the posted one, when compared to this:

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Permalink Reply by CJCollector on March 30, 2018 at 2:33pm

Forgery.

I've had a photo of that-style Mantle forgery in my files for years.

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