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Another TPA mess-up on JFK

Not wanting to let JSA gain all the notoriety in regards to JFK screw-ups, PSA/DNA decided to join the party. We recently had a discussion regarding a member's unfortunate purchase of a secretarial JFK-signed letter that had been authenticated as real by JSA. Well, while looking through past JFK sales on eBay (yes today I got to take a break from basketball), I came across a JFK-signed Senate letter that had been authenticated by PSA and sold this past Friday for a best offer of $1375.

Unfortunately for the buyer of this PSA-authenticated JFK letter, his/her purchased item is secretarial. Yes, yet again a major TPA got JFK wrong. Unless my eyes deceive me, this is identified as Secretary III in Charles Hamilton's book, The Robot That Helped Make a President. What do you think? I have pics below as well as a link to the eBay listing.

https://www.ebay.com/itm/1957-JFK-Signed-Letter-PSA-DNA-/2923092229...

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Permalink Reply by James on March 19, 2018 at 11:20pm

This really is frustrating. PSA charges $150 to authenticate JFK. For that much money, they should get it right. Now some unlucky person has a JFK letter that he or she thinks is real, but it's not...and he or she is out $1375 whether he she thinks so or not. And if that person sees this discussion and decides to try to get a refund, both the seller and eBay are going to point to the LOA from PSA and say sorry no refund.