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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.
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Permalink Reply by Bradford on
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He removed the item or eBay did...knowing eBay and their reluctance to do so, it was probably him.
https://www.ebay.com/ulk/itm/252379592033
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JSA strikes back on Harrison again
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Permalink Reply by Aaron Ryan on
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Hi guys! Just thought I'd let you all know that I ended up purchasing the signed Ford holding a newspaper image! It arrived this morning with the RR Auction COA and the signature (pictures don't do it any justice) is bold and beautiful! Although not on an Indiana Jones or Han Solo image, for now I'm pretty happy with what I have and the price I paid. (Ended up picking it up $150!) On that note I just want to thank all you guys for your help, especially Pete, in my search for a genuine Ford autograph!
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This Ford was viewed by many as either not authentic or one people wouldn't want in their collection. Whether it was just iffy or off entirely, the signature is nice and in a good place. Not saying that PSA is the end all be all, but it came back in their opinion "real". It was offered to me for $175 and I passed...
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Interesting that the same seller had this similar one for sell...any thoughts on it?
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Permalink Reply by Mike T on
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They're both fake IMO. Seller is lying about where they are obtained too.. big red flag. No need to lie when you have legit graphs. PSA got fooled.
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Permalink Reply by Pete Bendu on
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Steve Grad is the Lead authenticator at PSA DNA....yet this has a Joe Orlando signed COA.
That says plenty to me.
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Still glad I didn't purchase and got the one I did. It just says a lot when these "lead" authentication services don't put their best guy on it...weren't you saying the same thing about one I put on here from JSA, Pete? Wrong guy in the company and now a big fat LOA that says you can now sell me for a lot of money.
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JSA has a regular staff that they employ but along with that staff they have "experts" to go to including our own Steve Zarelli, Roger Epperson & John Reznikoff.
JD Bardwell is their contemporary entertainment expert, yet they don't seem to bother checking with him, on items he should be asked about.
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Pete....what are your thoughts on thoughts on this Ford being pitched by CA....
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This subject has been beaten to death by the people over on rebelscum......
So this will be my final post on the matter.
Celebrity Authentics is Gridiron, a company well covered on countless forums as being a bunch of forgers. They do signings with a celebrity (for a cover story,) sometimes more than one signing, but they never ever run out. They slip in forgeries to their actually signed stock and no one was the wiser for years. It only helps them when the majority of their ebay listings are representative of the item you will receive, not everything pictured in their auctions are the item you will get.
Their item ID website is sorely mishandled, so that you can't even accurately check the COA numbers on the stickers. They use representative images there too, not the actual item.
The CA address, phone numbers, fax numbers, even the COAs and holographic stickers are all the same as Gridiron.
Gridiron disappeared when their states Attorney General started an investigation, and up popped Celebrity Authentics.
Can there be any doubt?
Are people that stupid that they would buy from a company that has this kind of history?
It's only a matter of time before all of their product is called into question, and companies such as PSA DNA have been regularly failing submissions from their buyers.
Unfortunately this company does bring bigger name stars to conventions and events....so that side of their business is safe, as long as you can witness the actual signing of your item. This would be the only way to safely buy from them.
I am gonna continue sitting here with 150 some-odd Harrison Ford autographs,
12 or 13 of them are from Official Pix sigings
0 are from Celebrity Authentics.
I know you guys can do the math.
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There is enough wrong with this signature that I would never certify it.
If I did that sort of thing.
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