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THE AUTOGRAPH AUTHENTICATOR REPORT

I would like to share with everyone a major problem I have been seeing around Florida for the past few years. For a while you would only see these signature on photos or on multi signed 500 Home Run or 3000 hits baseballs. A year or so ago P.A.A.S. starting receiving these Autographed White Panel Baseballs, "Official League Baseball" , signed in blue ink on the sweet spot. They would be submitted one or two at time, and mostly from collectors that obtained them at local Florida shows or Flea markets. In the last 4-5 months we were receiving these almost exact signed baseballs for autograph authentication from around the country. Last month a local Florida dealer brought in 70 of these pure white single signed baseball for autograph authentication. I held the submission for a few days, so we could document and photograph the signatures for our files. When the dealer returned for his baseballs, I asked him where he had obtained these signed baseballs? He explained with a straight face that he has had them for over 7 years. He said that he waited on lines at autograph shows and sent some of the baseballs to autograph shows around the country to get signed. I then explained to him that they are not authentic and that I have been aware of these forged signatures for years. I also showed him enough proof that he had nothing further to say and admitted that he purchased the baseballs at a Miami Flea market for $10 per baseball. The scary part is he told me that a sports memorabilia dealer friend of his from North Carolina purchased over 300 baseballs and a dozen Muhammad Ali signed gloves. This is becoming a wide spread problem and I have been seeing these same baseballs on many websites and auctions. Please take note of these examples and study the signature patterns. You may notice a few different variations of the same signature, this is done by increasing or decreasing the size and width of the autograph. Besides not being authentic I am sure some of the readers will see some interesting similarities with these signatures. I would like hear some opinions and receive some input. There are additional names and signatures and we will continue to post them.

Thank you for your time,

Michael Frost of P.A.A.S. can be reached at specialagent711@aol.com

Tags: Authentication, Autograph, Frost, Michael, P.A.A.S., PSA/DNA

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Permalink Reply by CJCollector on September 9, 2012 at 10:20am

Ditto, Steve!!!!

The source of that garbage is the lowest of the low.

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Permalink Reply by Brandon Mysinger on September 9, 2012 at 5:51pm

Thank you!

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Permalink Reply by al cordero on January 11, 2013 at 1:25pm

sntcollectiblesjust sold me one of theres i returnecd it

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Permalink Reply by CJCollector on September 8, 2012 at 2:03pm

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Permalink Reply by DB on September 8, 2012 at 2:11pm

Can someone find which Court has the court verifiable court recognized exemplar files? I believe once we locate it we might also find Nicholas Burczyk, the Arc, and the map for where Jimmy hoffa remains.

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Permalink Reply by CJCollector on September 8, 2012 at 2:15pm

Whoever wrote that crap on that COA certainly lured thousands of people to buy the garbage associated with those COAs. Of course, we do know who wrote that crap.

His buddy.

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Permalink Reply by CJCollector on September 10, 2012 at 5:28am

And here's another one I have in my files.

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Permalink Reply by DB on September 10, 2012 at 5:54am

I thought I had this one up here (gremlins) from APodsada listed "enterprise" although it seems it's currently listed as inactive. What is it - mass manufacturing COAs in FL?

[Image removed for posting violation.]

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Permalink Reply by Brandon Mysinger on September 10, 2012 at 2:26pm

What image was removed? ? Hopefully not something that will protect buyers.

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Permalink Reply by Steve Cyrkin, Admin on September 10, 2012 at 2:56pm

It was an image of a MFP Replay COA that was deleted because it was freehand cut instead of neatly cropped like is normally done. The rough cuts make the site look unsettling, so I asked him not to before.

DB can repost it normally cut if he wants.

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Permalink Reply by DB on September 10, 2012 at 3:40pm

neatly cropped like is normally done. The rough cuts make the site look unsettling, are you kidding? What are you now the picture police, next you will be specifying grammar and spelling. This is for the benefit of the collector but have some nuts and repost the image you deleted to show how bad the freehand cut was. Incidently, there are dozens and you couldn't figure out which ones they are except perhaps the sloppy ones where I just didn't have time to make them pretty and not UNSETTLING to this site!

is this okay now cyrkin or do you want to bitch that the bottom left hand line is unsettling;