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Michael Jackson JSA

I’ve seen some bad (pun really not intended) Michael Jackson screw-up by TPAs, and this one’s right near the top. It’s an 8x10 for sale on eBay for $1250. It’s authenticated by JSA, and it’s in their system. Important to note, however, is the date of authentication, July 17, 2009. That’s less than a month after MJ passed away. TPAs were getting stuff in so that sellers could capitalize on Michael’s death. And unfortunately, based on some of the stuff I’ve seen authenticated around that time, the major TPAs were not real clear on what constituted an authentic Michael Jackson autograph. It’s pretty atrocious...I think. What do you think?

I’m posting a link to the ebay listing because, for some reason, I’m not able to post pics right now.

https://www.ebay.com/itm/Michael-Jackson-Autographed-Photo-JSA-Auth...

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Permalink Reply by Prashant Kaushik on July 5, 2019 at 8:58am

James,

I am confident this is 100 percent real. It is from the John Brennan Collection. Yes it is shaky but it is a real MJ auto.

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Permalink Reply by wascher on July 5, 2019 at 12:07pm

Thanks for the info Prashant!

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Permalink Reply by James on July 5, 2019 at 12:46pm

Yes, thank you, Prashant. I’ve decided to edit the title of the discussion! Lol.

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Permalink Reply by Prashant Kaushik on July 5, 2019 at 7:11pm

This is another autograph of Michael Jackson from the John Brennan collection. A worse example but still 100% authentic.

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Permalink Reply by James on July 5, 2019 at 9:05pm

Yeah, it’s pretty ugly. To be honest, I wouldn’t want it for my collection. Honestly, I don’t know much about John Brennan. I know he’s a highly-respected in-person Autograph collector.

But can we be certain that he never slipped something in his collection that he really didn’t obtain himself? I’m truly not trying to be argumentative, just wanting to learn.

So I pose this question to you and anyone else that would care to chime in. Let’s say I, myself, obtained that MJ autograph or the OP from Michael Jackson in-person, would it still pass JSA or PSA or BAS or Epperson?

There’s another MJ autograph on eBay that was discussed a few weeks ago. I said it was unlike any MJ autograph I had ever seen. Steve C. agreed he had never seen an MJ autograph like it before, but it was authenticated by JSA I believe. We were later told that it was from the John Brennan collection.

So why do John Brennan Michael Jackson autographs appear so different from most others?

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Permalink Reply by wascher on July 6, 2019 at 2:07am

You're now assuming I knew this was a John Brennan autograph. I had no idea. To me it looks like an IP sig - they are usually not pretty.

And you already know the answer to: do authenticators make mistakes.

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Permalink Reply by James on July 6, 2019 at 5:41pm

I know you didn’t know it was from Brennan. And if you think it’s authentic, Wascher, in all honesty, then I think it is too. I have full trust in you about Michael Jackson items just like I have full trust in Kamran regarding Madonna items.

The other Brennan I was referring to above did not look like a rushed autograph, but it looked pretty weird. If I can post it, I will.

I also saw a couple of Brennan IPs in RR that were worse than the OP here.