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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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So does CA have a little more credence with this piece since CGC "witnessed" the signing?
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Permalink Reply by Mike T on
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CGC won't cert it unless they witness it.. that's their whole deal. So I would say you're safe with them even if it does come from CA.
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They also list the CGC stuff on ebay as well.. so it's not like they are only selling forgeries. I suppose it will just take time for enough PSA rejections to come out of hiding and then people will start steering away.
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Permalink Reply by Steve Zarelli on
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Not sure what CGC item Bradford is referring to, but the CGC Signature Series is only as strong as their witnesses. To my knowledge, they have been solid, but all it takes is one corrupt witness and you could end up with a situation no different than certain "witnessed private signing" sellers.
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True, if CGC's reputation goes out the window on this it would shake the hobby pretty hard.
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Permalink Reply by Pete Bendu on
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I haven't seen a bad CGC piece yet, but it's amusing how all the other CA pieces look nothing like the graphs Harrison gave on the CGC'd comics.
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Permalink Reply by Samuel John Clifford on
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I had a question about Celebrity Authentics. So you guys are basically saying pretty much they are doing some pretty shady stuff. I've read all the bad stigma from the whole Gridiron Authentics stuff. I'm just wondering if every piece they have is a forgery or not. I know if someone bought from them they would be taking a huge risk. I did think it was kind of odd when on Ebay their ID "Barnhollow" had some of these items up starting at a bidding price of $9.99. Back before I didn't think too much of it but now I think something is really fishy about that.
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No, every piece is not a forgery. Same was the case with Gridiron. They mixed forgeries in with authentic stuff so that it was harder for people to notice.
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Ahh, okay Mike. Yeah that's some really shady stuff going on there.
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