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Cheap Mickey Mantle Autographs

Just came across these on eBay. He has three photos signed by the mick. All seem to be a super reasonable price.

http://pages.ebay.com/link/?nav=item.view&alt=web&id=201215...

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Permalink Reply by Sean C. on November 10, 2014 at 10:11am

I hope I'm not leading people astray...these autos looked good to me. Hopefully his past forgeries were not with malice.

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Permalink Reply by Sean C. on November 10, 2014 at 10:24am

I looked at his past sales and it seems he's sold other authentic mantles in the past month too

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Permalink Reply by Sean C. on November 10, 2014 at 10:35am

They look legit.

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Permalink Reply by Steve Zarelli on November 10, 2014 at 11:07am

I couldn't resist the rookie pose for $138 shipped. :-)

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Permalink Reply by Null on November 10, 2014 at 1:51pm

Football Amy just listed two more personalized Mantles at great prices that are no question authentic. Calling all Daniels/Jims:

http://www.ebay.com/itm/Mickey-Mantle-Auto-Autographed-Stat-Card-ex...

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Permalink Reply by Steve Zarelli on November 14, 2014 at 1:28pm

My Mantle rookie pose arrived today. Beautiful bold signature with no fading whatsoever. Photo is mint.

TV Sports Mailbag 1989 stamp on the back. Every TV Sports Mailbag item I have ever seen has been good. Not familiar with the company, but I assume it was an early private signing company. Anyone have further info?

Only downside is the print is obviously second generation with bits of fuzz in the photo itself... but you see that a lot with stuff from the 80s and 90s. Doesn't seem like they were too concerned with licensing or copyrights and made photographic copies when they needed photos for a signing.

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Permalink Reply by Null on November 14, 2014 at 1:34pm

Amazing pick-up at that price... I noticed they lowered one down to $125, fantastic price for a nice bold Mantle.

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Permalink Reply by Sean C. on December 2, 2014 at 2:01pm

The seller is at it again. Cheap mantle autos for sale.

http://pages.ebay.com/link/?nav=item.view&alt=web&id=201232...

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Permalink Reply by Null on December 2, 2014 at 2:32pm

Hmmm. I have no problem with the personalized stuff... But this particular one seems to lack any "swiftness"

This one the end looks a tad weird

Here's another non-personalized they have for sale. Extremely fresh looking ink once again. This does come in a plaque that I have seen before, so it's not like these are fresh off of a printer:

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Permalink Reply by Sean C. on December 2, 2014 at 2:44pm

I notice what you're saying with swiftness on the first auto. However, Its not uncommon to find a freshly inked looking auto..at least from what I've seen. Really though, I hope my judgement was correct. I would not want anyone to buy a fake auto.

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Permalink Reply by Null on December 2, 2014 at 2:51pm

Yeah I am just trying to play devil's advocate as at first glance I had no problem with them. This would have to be a new VERY good forger, who is intentionally buying unsigned old photos/postcards to sign that match the time period, as well as mixing them with no doubt authentic personalized stuff...

I am going to look at these again later when I am not completely paranoid... LOL.