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Early Harry Potter Trio Autos? Real or Rubbish?

Hey all,

I went night scrolling through the bay and came across this while looking at some other signed storyboards. As a kid-teen during the HP movie years this is a dream addition if it’s real.

Unfortunately, with the morning came some doubts about the details.

Daniel’s signature seems close enough with early auto examples. Emma’s gets into the territory of “I guess if she wasn’t really practiced with signing yet/was in a hurry I can see how that turned out like that”. Rupert is where I get nervous. There’s elements of what his signature evolved into, but the weird trail at the end of the R and the sloppiness of the swoosh sort of thing underneath has me nervous.

I ran it past both the PSA and Beckett $10 quick check options, and both came back as “Likely not genuine/Unlikely to pass” but after some reading around it sounds like those can be taken with a grain of salt if you’re submitting stuff off the beaten path.

When I inquired about the letter from the production team person I was told “per the request of the crew member, we do not list the members' letter or information online, however we have sold several of the similar items over the last 10 years from him & everyone has been very happy w/ the purchases.” which makes me nervous if it’s just going to be a nobody camera op or something.

So, I came here. It could just be that a bunch of 10/11 year olds didn’t have a signing process yet because their big movie hadn’t even been released yet. It could also be a total fake that some guy has been pushing out of his collectibles store in Ohio for a decade to print money. As much as I want to blissfully accept the first case, it’s going to keep gnawing at me.

Sorry if this was super lengthy. It’s my first post on here. Whether good news or bad hopefully you can help put me at ease here and I can either go get a nice frame of start working on a return process.

thanks!

-MH

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Permalink Reply by Matt Hehl on June 1, 2021 at 1:28pm

The item description

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Permalink Reply by Eric Keith Longo on June 1, 2021 at 2:24pm

Here:

Harry Potter 1st autograph, Watson & Grint too

Big differences. Steer clear of this item you posted. Oh, you bought it? Based on...?

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Permalink Reply by Eric Keith Longo on June 1, 2021 at 3:01pm

What did you pay? Not $499 - what was accepted? If these were genuine why have a Best Offer enabled. Surprised there wasn't free shipping.

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Permalink Reply by Eric Keith Longo on June 1, 2021 at 3:04pm

You can start a return despite the seller not accepting returns.

Seller has another up now?

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Permalink Reply by Matt Hehl on June 1, 2021 at 3:41pm

The seller doesn’t list that they accept returns, but there is an option to start a return process through the eBay money back guarantee which the item is covered by. Not a guarantee, but a possibility to take action.

The other one was up at the same time, but I preferred the one with the characters on the page.

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Permalink Reply by Eric Keith Longo on June 1, 2021 at 3:53pm

Start with "significantly not as described" - you will prevail.

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Permalink Reply by Matt Hehl on June 1, 2021 at 3:38pm

$400 with shipping. Based off of what the signatures (with a cert) seem to go for now that some of the hype has died down I felt like I got a good deal on a yet to be certified item, but nothing ridiculous. In hindsight the red flags are there, but not glaring to someone relatively new to things like myself.

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Permalink Reply by Matt Hehl on June 1, 2021 at 3:33pm

This for the Watson Auto

The Radcliffe looks a little too clean, but isn’t drastically dissimilar from other examples from the time

I was nervous about the Grint, but again chalked it up to an 10/11 year old not really having a solid signature yet. He has changed it multiple times over a 20 year period.