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Mickey Mantle Autographed Photo Forgery Ebay Seller Dejoebid11 GFA COA

Here's another typical example of another Mickey Mantle forgery on a photograph with a COA from GFA (Guaranteed Forensic Authenticators).

This Mickey Mantle forgery is listed by Ebay seller Dejoebid11.

This crap is usually purchased cheap at local auctions, estate sales, etc., and then listed on Ebay to be sold for a profit.

This crap is also purchased by people who know ZERO about autographs. Their only interest is in flipping this garbage for a profit, while at the same time, infecting the hobby with forgeries.

Most of this garbage is listed for sale at a website called www.atauction.com

http://www.ebay.com/itm/MICKEY-MANTLE-CENTER-OF-NEW-YORK-AUTOGRAPHE...

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Permalink Reply by CJCollector on June 23, 2013 at 3:55pm

Here is an example of a Mickey Mantle forgery listed right now (June 23, 2013) on www.atauction.com

http://atauction.com/iSynApp/auctionDisplay.action?sid=193&auct...

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Permalink Reply by Erich Jerozal on June 23, 2013 at 4:06pm

I just checked that site out. Every Mantle item they had that I saw was a fake at www.atauction.com

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Permalink Reply by CJCollector on June 23, 2013 at 4:11pm

Yes, Erich, every Mickey Mantle autograph on that website is a forgery.

Seeing that Steve Rocchi (GFA) took over the certing duties for AtAuction (formerly www.alwaysatauction.com). Rocchi took over from Chris Morales, Ted Taylor and Drew Max.

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Permalink Reply by Rick Meyer on June 23, 2013 at 9:10pm

The auction company knows these are forgeries. As long as they get a anybody claiming to be an authenticator to state its real they are convinced they are protected from wrongdoing. No ethics at all.

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Permalink Reply by CJCollector on June 24, 2013 at 3:03am

I agree, Rick. We have both agreed on this issue a long time ago and the crap is still going on.

It started with AlwaysAtAuction and Chris Morales, Ted Taylor and Drew Max.

Now it's AtAuction and Steve Rocchi (GFA).

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Permalink Reply by Steve Zarelli on June 24, 2013 at 4:15am

Yes, it is the Coaches Corner business model. As long as there is some alleged expert willing to put their name on a piece of paper, they will sell it... even if all logic and reason indicates the item is bad.