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Harrison Ford Questionable Autographs

Some of you know me, and from what I understand, someone caught selling yet another bad Ford autograph has once again, decided to spout off at the mouth. Claims that I am a dealer and I only tell unsuspecting autograph buyers that their item is fake so that I can sell my own Harrison Fords. Again I am hearing claims that the likely supplier of the forgeries is the true expert on Harrison Ford autographs.

Side note the seller sent me a friend request message yesterday with the single question about if I knew a particular collector. In my world this says plenty, and likely tells me where the piece originated.

When I tell people that I track the sale of Harrison Ford autographs, I am not kidding around, I watch sales here, I watch sales on rebelscum and on ebay and other online auction sites.

Who signed them? Who is the forger? I am not going to play games and point fingers, nor will I even guess if the supplier is the forger, all I can do is put together where they came from.

I will give the people that have had these in their possession, that courtesy. They can come clean about where they got them as the "in-person" and "private signing" stories fall apart.

This is the same courtesy I tried to provide to Marc Moser, the last guy caught in a huge Ford Forgery mess. He decided to drag my name thru the mud for a few months as well, but by doing that he just shot himself in the foot. People will wake up sooner or later, and the truth does come out.

I present these images to you, again supplying the signatures and letting the people on this forum and others as judge, you decide the truth. You will also be the deciding factor if these autograph professionals keep their reputations or if they have earned brand new ones.

Every item below has been tracked to the most recent seller, and through his own admission the source of the autographs, I will also include items sold elsewhere by the supplier who admitted on these very pages to supplying some of these.

The pattern is pretty clear to me.

As for the recent claims about me being a dealer, out to only hurt other peoples supposedly reputable business.

Please keep in mind, that anyone that has purchased anything at all from me in the past 5 years has approached me. When they do I usually point them in other directions and offer to authenticate (for free) any item they ask about, from any other source.

Tags: Ford, Han, Harrison, Indiana, Jones, Solo, Star, Wars

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Permalink Reply by James B on November 17, 2017 at 7:11am

Hi folks,

Does anyone have any thoughts on this one please?

Thanks!

Jim

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Permalink Reply by Pete Bendu on November 17, 2017 at 7:17am

The only thought that comes to my mind, is that you should run far away from that seller, and don't look back.

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Permalink Reply by James B on November 17, 2017 at 9:24am

Oh Pete, I do love your creative appraisals :) Thank you!

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Permalink Reply by cpg on November 18, 2017 at 5:14am

Any opinion about this one ? thanks

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Permalink Reply by Pete Bendu on November 18, 2017 at 8:18am

Run even faster than last time.....as far away as you can get.

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Permalink Reply by cpg on November 18, 2017 at 9:04am

ok, thanks for your opinion , I was not sure but I did not feel it was real.

lovely day to you.

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Permalink Reply by Pete Bendu on November 18, 2017 at 3:13pm

cpg,

This is just a side note, and it is only meant to inform you, not to tell you what to do. I did however want to make you aware.

Back in the 1990's there was a company that sold lots of fake autographs, they filled the Autograph Magazine and other periodicals with big multi page color ads, that company was CPG Direct. Years went by and the owners of that company split the business and one of them started Truly Unique Collectibles.

I know that I am not the only collector who remembers them, and I must say that those 3 initials still send a shiver down my spine. all these years have passed and still, I have yet to see an authentic Hollywood celebrity autograph with a COA issued by either company.

I highly doubt that you have anything to do with this company, and I did want you to be aware of the unfortunate reputation attached to the name. For your sake I wouldn't want fellow collectors to mistake you for them.

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Permalink Reply by Steve Cyrkin, Admin on November 18, 2017 at 4:27pm

I never heard of CPG Direct, but I did hear about Truly Unique Collectibles. The owner(s) were arrested for selling forgeries by the FBI during Phase II of Operation Bullpen and convicted.

They stopped advertising in Autograph Collector a few years before I bought the magazine in mid-2004, but they were still talked about years later.

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Permalink Reply by Pete Bendu on November 18, 2017 at 6:18pm

If you have back issues of the magazine from the mid to late 90's you will see the CPG Direct ads that were nearly identical to the later TUC ads. Rumor at the time CPG was sued and the judgement against them led to them closing shop. Truly Unique Collectibles started the following month.