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Permalink Reply by Eric Keith Longo on March 10, 2021 at 6:43pm

I would think the sticker could be put on a whatever they issue. ACOA is a group of advanced experts who will spend more than a minute on your item and then Justin Steffman renders a final opinion. Much better than fast glance by who knows who. If warranted, then send it to them for a full exam and papers.

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Permalink Reply by David on March 10, 2021 at 6:46pm

Thanks for the tip - I'll inquire with them. Hopefully they can put in on the COA instead of the item.

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Permalink Reply by Steve Zarelli on March 10, 2021 at 7:06pm

Use the online opinion service first, then worry about the sticker if it passes the initial screen.

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Permalink Reply by Eric Keith Longo on March 10, 2021 at 7:11pm

+1 exactly

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Permalink Reply by David on March 10, 2021 at 7:35pm

Makes sense. I sent them a message this morning about creating an account with them. Waiting on them to respond.

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Permalink Reply by David on March 18, 2021 at 2:18pm

Thread update - both items passed ACOA pre-certification, in addition to another cast-signed item I submitted from the same seller.

Would you consider this to mean the autographs on both comic books are very likely to be authentic? As mentioned previously, I also believed them to be authentic from my own observation. There were simply too many autographs that looked spot-on to me (especially the autographs of Clive Standen, Gustaf Skarsgard and George Blagden) that I believed it would have taken an highly, highly talented forger to pull this off all on the first try. I do acknowledge there is a certain "sameness" to some of the autographs - I actually did have this thought when I first saw the item, but I assumed it to be a coincidence because I trusted the source.

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Permalink Reply by David on March 19, 2021 at 12:13pm

Here's one example of the detail with which a forger would have needed to have in order to pull this off (and one of the reasons why I believe these items are likely authentic, independent of ACOA's opinion):

This is the signature of Clive Standen, certainly not a well known signature by any means. From studying his signature, he always writes the first letter of his name (C) as the LAST stroke in his signature, which is apparent on both of the comic book examples from examining the ink. I'm assuming this a pretty uncommon thing for someone to do. I believe that most forgers would not have picked up on this, especially when his signature is only 1 out of 10 on the comic book.

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