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Baseball Signatures

Found these baseballs when cleaning out stuff. would appreciate thoughts as to authenticity. Willie Mays, Mickey Mantle, JOE DiMaggio and cal Ripken Jr. before I spend $$ getting authenticated would like folks’ opinions if it’s worth attempting to do so. Thanks in advance this is my first post.

these were apparently ordered from a Lillian Vernon catalogs in the early 90s

Tags: DiMaggio, Mantle, Ripken, mays

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Permalink Reply by Steve Zarelli on December 24, 2019 at 5:37am

Negatory on the Mantle and DiMaggio.

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Permalink Reply by Steve Zarelli on December 24, 2019 at 5:40am

By the way... I never heard of signed memorabilia being sold through Lillian Vernon catalog. Interesting.

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Permalink Reply by Michael DeSimone on December 24, 2019 at 6:00am

Thank you - yes actually my parents said one of my aunts sold Lillian Vernon stuff and they bought these at a discount directly through the catalog. I got these for Christmas one year and just found them recently after cleaning out a bedroom. Mantle is expensive to authenticate so I appreciate the thoughts.

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Permalink Reply by Steve Zarelli on December 24, 2019 at 6:42am

These forgery styles were distributed through Home Shopping Network and other outlets like that. Obviously the seller didn’t know they were bad; they were scammed by the distributor who provided these. So it doesn’t surprise me that Lillian Vernon would have them, I just never heard of it before.