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Ebay Seller Gnmbeanies Sells Forged Signed Mickey Mantle Baseball--COA Not Scoreboard

Before I continue, below are links showing hundreds of examples of forged Mickey Mantle baseballs, photos, etc. found on Ebay (the most dangerous place to buy autographs if you're a casual collector or impulse buyer).

https://live.autographmagazine.com/forum/topics/ebay-mantle-dimaggi...

https://live.autographmagazine.com/forum/topics/examples-of-mickey-...

https://live.autographmagazine.com/forum/topics/most-common-mantle-...

Now check out this obvious and laughable forged Mickey Mantle baseball sold by Ebay seller Gnmbeanies for $610.00.

Who in their right mind spends $610.00 on crap like this!!!!

You can purchase a Beckett-certed, JSA-certed or PSA-certed autographed Mickey Mantle baseball for less than the price of this crap.

First of all, it's a laughable forgery that looks like it was penned by a three-year old.

Secondly, this is not a Scoreboard product.

Ebay seller Gnmbeanies is using a edited/modified copy of an original Scoreboard COA.

One of the biggest scams on Ebay is for sellers to use a copied/edited old Scoreboard COA to sell their forgeries, and with Ebay so heavily-populated with delusional autograph collectors and impulse buyers, it is actually easier to sell forgeries on Ebay than authentic autographs.

Here is that third-generation copy of an old Scoreboard COA.

Here's a set of Mantle/Williams forgeries. Again, not a Scoreboard product. Fraud.

Check out this forged Mickey Mantle bat. Mickey Mantle did not autograph bats for Scoreboard. This is another laughable forgery.

It looks like it took the moron forger thirty minutes to pen this garbage.

Disgusting.

Below is another example of a seller using an old edited/copied Scoreboard COA to sell a forged Mickey Mantle baseball.

The idiot forger penned the Mantle forgery on a 1994 World Series baseball.

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Permalink Reply by KrisTaylor on August 26, 2019 at 5:21pm

I am Gnmbeanies. I do not understand, nor can I even fathom, why Mr. William's has chosen to attack my integrity with this article. This ball was from my personal collection and was signed betwewn 25 to 30 years ago in Atlantic City, New Jersey. I WATCHED Mickey Mantle sign this ball. The COA that was shown in the auction was and is the exact, original copy that I was given that day. It has been stored away in my home and never touched until I put it up for auction.

I am getting ready to retire and move and I am downsizing. You will see many of the different sports memorabilia that I own going up for auction and it is ALL authentic. I have NOTHING to gain by offering supposed forgeries as Mr. William's has so rudely publicized.

I can not control what someone is willing to pay for a piece of history either.

I believe that I am due an apology.

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Permalink Reply by CJCollector on August 26, 2019 at 5:36pm

Kris Taylor, you are not due any apology.

You did not "watch Mickey Mantle" sign that baseball because Mickey Mantle of the NY Yankees did not sign it.

That is one horrid-looking forgery.

Secondly, you show a third-generation (copied) Scoreboard COA.

Third, if you "watched" Mickey Mantle sign it, what's the "Scoreboard" COA for?

You claim the Scoreboard COA is what you received after you "watched" Mickey Mantle sign it.

Mickey Mantle signed for Scoreboard in Private.

No one handed out Scoreboard COAs in public.

I guarantee that if you submitted that baseball to Beckett, JSA or PSA, they would deem it a forgery in two seconds.

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Permalink Reply by terrier8HOF on August 26, 2019 at 5:41pm

Mr. Taylor, here is your apology. I'm sorry but I do not believe a word you are saying. For the reasons presented by Mr. Williams, and also just purely based on the signature itself. It is a laughable forgery that anyone that studies autographs would pick up on in a nanosecond. You don't even have to be familiar with Mantle's signature to see this for what it is. Look at how slowly this train wreck is written.