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Authenticator Advice- Who can be trusted?

I have found out from my experience that the following companies are at the top for this industry:

PSA, JSA, Steiner, Tristar & SGC

I would like you opinion on the following:

Michael Arzillio-an attorney who does his own COA's

All Star

Mint Pros

Power Play

Ballpark

Leones Enterprise

Score Board- I have heard good & bad about them

MY IDOL TOTAL MEMORABILIA

GAI- I have heard good & bad about them

PREMIER SPORTS AND COLLECTIBLES

Thanks for you help as I continue to learn.

 

 

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Permalink Reply by Mike Kaminski on November 1, 2014 at 12:18pm
Original Scoreboard is all good, it's just that forgers would photocopy their COAs and sell them alongside forgeries. The problem is there really is no "matching" system to their COAs such as holograms.
Permalink Reply by Ben Silver on November 1, 2014 at 12:34pm

Try the UACC.

Permalink Reply by Steve Cyrkin, Admin on November 1, 2014 at 12:34pm

Steiner and Tri-Star are highly reputable, but they aren't authenticators. They hold licensed, witnessed signings. Steiner occasionally offers vintage autographs they didn't witness with their COAs, but I don't consider them authenticators.

Global Authentication/GAI isn't much more reliable than Christopher Morales, Don Frangipani or AAU/Drew Max. Their COAs are now considered a sign of forgery, not authenticity, by the knowlegeble autograph industry.

Permalink Reply by Ben Silver on November 1, 2014 at 12:37pm

Steve, eBay approves of Global you can't do much better than that! But authentication by a separate company is a very American thing to do. I would trust TriStar.

Permalink Reply by Steve Cyrkin, Admin on November 1, 2014 at 12:43pm

I trust Tri-Star, but they don't offer authentication services, do they? They certify their own private signings.

I stand by my statement about Global. If eBay really cared they would have kicked them off years ago.

Permalink Reply by Rich on November 1, 2014 at 12:45pm

Ebay allows (and profits off) the sales of tons of forgeries on a daily basis with no action.  GA is awful and has been well documented as such, to the point where their sticker is much more likely to designate a forgery than an authentic item.

Permalink Reply by CJCollector on November 1, 2014 at 1:27pm

Ben Silver wrote "eBay approves of Global you can't do much better than that!"

Seriously?

Here is Global Authentics at their finest:

http://live.autographmagazine.com/profiles/blog/show?id=3524372%3AB...

Permalink Reply by Ian Baldock on November 1, 2014 at 7:28pm

Global is a rubber stamper of garbage.

Permalink Reply by Dan Gregory on November 2, 2014 at 12:05am

Global are a joke and if you buy an item authenticated by them Ben you may as well burn it. Total waste of time and should be banned from eBay and Sipe etc should be in jail for fraud

Permalink Reply by Dom Vito Castiglione on November 2, 2014 at 2:45am

I can't wait to the day Global crumbles and Steve Sipe is finally sharing a prison cell & cuddling with Bubba

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