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Permalink Reply by Eddy on February 29, 2024 at 9:11am

Yeah.   

I have an Abbott and Costello signed photograph from Heritage that has a full LOA accompanying it from them.  That's standard practice for them, apparently.

Here's what they put in the listing description for some other material they sell:

"Heritage believes the signature to be authentic, but know before bidding that no Certificate of Authenticity is provided."  I've only seen that disclaimer on material that looked sketchy to me.

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Permalink Reply by Findbooks on February 29, 2024 at 9:12am

Exactly, that is awful hypocrisy - WRIT LARGE. Caveat Emptor, indeed, and in my mind I believed they were one of the better outfits.

It makes no sense for an auction house to take responsibility for issuing COA's. By all means second that to a reputable 3rd-party authenticator - as I believe Gotta have R&R do, e.g. - but to do it yourself would be commercial suicide, I would have thought.

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