Freddie Mercury Opinions Please.

This Freddie Mercury autograph was given to me as a gift a few years back. The older friend, and an experienced autograph collector,had it in his possession from his sister, who got this signed in person, as he told me. I have no reason to believe he was lying.

I have to sell in unfortunately and I was either going to send it to PSA/JSA first, because I know many buyers/bidders will claim it to be fake, etc. I decided to put it on eBay instead and within a few hours, received a message claiming it was 110% fake. I truly do not believe this to be the case, but decided to take it down to eventually send to PSA/JSA when I get the extra $100, to make sure.

I wanted to ask for everyones opinion on this item. The sister wrote when and where it was obtained. At this time, I do have it matted and framed. Any opinions are welcome, but I will still eventually send it to PSA/JSA. Thanks guys! I have seen many examples on google etc....which are VERY similar to what I have,

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Permalink Reply by Steve Cyrkin, Admin on March 22, 2016 at 6:58pm

Did you list it on eBay, Kayla?

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Permalink Reply by Kayla Zielinski on March 22, 2016 at 7:17pm

No, I did not.

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Permalink Reply by Steve Cyrkin, Admin on March 22, 2016 at 8:00pm

You sent it direct to PSA/DNA for a QuickOpinion?

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Permalink Reply by Kayla Zielinski on March 22, 2016 at 8:06pm

I had sent the link to my "ended" auction from before. I was wondering if you meant if I listed it on eBay again :)

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Permalink Reply by Joe W. on March 22, 2016 at 7:21pm

I would submit it to PSA and get that LOA. I have heard of them giving a "likely genuine" quick opinion and then rejecting a full authentication. And vice versa.

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Permalink Reply by Joe W. on March 22, 2016 at 6:43pm

Isn't autograph collecting full of surprises. Imagine all the different and conflicting opinions. Does anyone wonder why this hobby is in the condition it's in.

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Permalink Reply by Steve Cyrkin, Admin on March 22, 2016 at 6:57pm

Some autographs aren't cut and dry. There are blatant forgeries and autographs that are close enough that knowledgeable experts might disagree. I think this is one of the latter.

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Permalink Reply by BallroomDays67 on March 22, 2016 at 7:06pm

+1. Based on what I've seen, the experts do seem to disagree with each other to a surprising extent. They occasionally even disagree with themselves.

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Permalink Reply by Kayla Zielinski on March 22, 2016 at 8:07pm

I wanted to thank you all for your opinions etc. Very helpful in some way and hopefully this post will help others in the future!

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Permalink Reply by Innuendo on March 22, 2016 at 9:48pm

Hi Kayla. I see Roger gave you a no on this item and PSA Quick Opinion said likely genuine. Although I also do not believe this item is genuine, I have to applaud you for removing it from eBay while you looked for more opinions. That alone says quite a bit about the kind of seller you are. And again, although I don't believe it's real, I do understand if you would want to sell with the PSA cert behind it. What we do is give educated guesses. I've been studying Queen autographs for 30+ years and even still, I'll never claim to get it correct 100% of the time. I'm always learning, myself. I would just suggest that if you do decide to sell, that you get the full cert from PSA since the item has been called into question by a few people here alone. And like somebody already mentioned earlier, it's rare- but there have been times when the quick opinion from PSA didn't match the opinion given for the LOA. All the best in your future sales on ebay, Kayla. I have no doubt that you are an honest seller, regardless of what I think of this item, your actions prove you are one of the good ones. Trust me, on ebay- the good ones are hard to find.

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Permalink Reply by Paul on March 22, 2016 at 9:59pm

This is why I like this site because often the tpa's have different opinion's, but here I can ask the fan based collectors their opinion's.

There is the small minority that will buy an autograph and try a number of tpa's to pass their autograph ,so they can flip the item for a profit.

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Permalink Reply by Steve Cyrkin, Admin on March 22, 2016 at 9:32pm

Hi Kayla,

I reopened your discussion. We generally don't close them unless the discussion is so out of control that it's disruptive. Members are allowed--and welcome--to make responsible comments.

Thanks,

Steve