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Global Authentication Autograph Concerns [Title Edited]

[Moderator Note: This member, who is not using his actual name (which is not required), apparently has never been an authenticator for Global, which he claimed to have once been. While his opinions on the authenticity of the autographs he discusses may be correct, no consideration should be given to his other statements without verification.]

I decided to stroll through ebay and look at some autograph certified by the new Global Authentication. I don't know of any one single autograph collector that actually looks as a Global COA as worth anything. As a matter of fact, if I am looking at a higher end piece with a Global COA I double study it because I question the fact of why the seller would send it to Global instead of a real authenticator.

Here are a few forgeries with a Global COA. I know Steve Sipe is a member on this board and if this post gets me kicked off of here, than so be it. I am just about sick and tired of Global aiding these criminal forgers by giving them a pretty sicker and cert. to go along with their forgery. If you guys want to be treated like real authenticators, how about act like it.

Forger #1 ( listed on ebay for nearly 1000 dollars ) Make no mistake. This is a forgery.

What is even more confusing about this particular situation is you also authenticated this REAL TOM BRADY JERSEY BELOW. How can you authenticate the real autograph shown below and also say this obvious forgery is real?

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Permalink Reply by Charles O'Brailey on August 14, 2013 at 11:54am

Oh and as far as the Lyndon B. Johnson, I have a massive knowledge of his autograph because he was the case study in a handwriting class that I took. First of all, The J in Johnson should always look like a sideways pyramid. Yours has wayyyy to much curve. This is a secretarial signature. I am 10000% positive on that.

You can say it is real all day long but I know different. Here is an example of how the J is supposed to look in his last name. Anything other than this type of J is garbage.

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Permalink Reply by Steve Sipe on August 15, 2013 at 11:47am

And another for you from the 1930's as well.

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Permalink Reply by Charles O'Brailey on August 14, 2013 at 11:56am

Here is another example of how the J should look.

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Permalink Reply by Steve Sipe on August 15, 2013 at 11:42am

http://reflectionsinhistory.com/html/1930_s.html

Here is a signature study for you Charles/William. Couple of 1930's examples to ponder ya'll.

Well played gents.

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Permalink Reply by terrier8HOF on August 15, 2013 at 11:56am

the signature in the study (which I have seen before) from the same time period does match up nicely with the signature on the letter in question. His later in life signatures (which I have on a bookplate) do exhibit the more angled J, as well as a different slant.

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Permalink Reply by Steve Sipe on August 14, 2013 at 12:04pm

Sorry you do not like the DeNiro but since you drink the PSA Kool Aid maybe you might like their scribbles better :-) Arm chair quarterbacks like you are a dime a dozen Charles.......

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Permalink Reply by Charles O'Brailey on August 14, 2013 at 12:13pm

Arm chair quarterback? I find you very hilarious sir. The fact is, your authentications are a joke. There is not one true collector in the world who looks at a Global COA as anything to build confidence. As a matter of fact, most collectors stay away from anything with a Global or GAI cert because it is a sure sign of a forgery.

I looked at all 3 of those DeNiro autographs that PSA passed and 2 out of the 3 look good to me. The fact is, eventually your COA's will be banned on ebay and these forgers will simply take their business to the next fake authenticator. You can call me an arm chair QB all day long, but looking at your authentications on ebay, it is easy to see who is the real bum. You talk about your vast staff, but what you don't realize is that I know all about your company. I knew Mike Baker and Justin Priddy and I was hoping that when you took over at Global you would do something about the crazy amount of garbage that was being authenticated. All you did was pick up the rubber stamp and continue stamping. You are another Mike Baker, no doubt. Here is what I'm going to do and you won't know when it is coming.

I am going to video myself forging a signature on a jersey and post it on youtube. Then I am going to send that jersey to you, and low and behold you will authenticate it. I will then post me taking the jersey out of your packaging and expose you for the sorry "explicit removed" you really are.

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Permalink Reply by Charles O'Brailey on August 14, 2013 at 12:16pm

Also, how about read my post about PSA/JSA. I am no fan of their work either. I think they rubber stamp for dealers they get alot of business from. If you assume that I am a big fan of PSA, you are dead wrong.

HOWEVER.........If i had to trust PSA or Global. There would be no question who i'd pick.