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Permalink Reply by Steve Cyrkin, Admin on January 31, 2019 at 4:15pm

You're right, Mark, it's not real. In this case you don't even need to know Mantle's autograph to be able to tell.

This was printed on a color inkjet photo printer. They came out the month Mantle died.

Look at edges between his uniform and the background, and the letters and the uniform. The edges are made up of dots, not a smooth line like regular photo lab printed photos. 

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Permalink Reply by Mark Wrubel on January 31, 2019 at 5:57pm

Thanks for the reply.  I just texted the owner of this gem.  They sent me a text back stating this pic is now in the garbage.  Doesn't want it to get in the wrong hands and some sucker pays a couple hundred bucks for it on Ebay.

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Permalink Reply by Steve Cyrkin, Admin on January 31, 2019 at 6:20pm

Please thank him for us!

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Permalink Reply by Steve on January 31, 2019 at 5:47pm

Yes, this is fake and there are too many tell tale signs to count.

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Permalink Reply by John Spillane on February 1, 2019 at 3:01am

I so agree. Not good!!

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Permalink Reply by Fuddjcal on February 1, 2019 at 9:17am

It's a never seen before mantle photo & I think it's a very rare forgery style...you don't see a forged signature like that one very often....He should have kept it. It's one of one.

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Permalink Reply by John Spillane on February 1, 2019 at 9:50am

When I first saw it, I thought of Greg Marino's forgery.

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Permalink Reply by Woody2Shoes on February 3, 2019 at 1:13pm

Were Marino's forgeries generally that hideous (the one on the ball)? If so, how in the heck did he get away with it for so long?

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Permalink Reply by John Spillane on February 6, 2019 at 3:45pm

That's a great question, Woody. I guess back then they weren't really considered hideous, because there wasn't anything to compare it to. Or word didn't get around and there were no resources like we have today, where it's a lot easier to weed out the garbage. 

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Permalink Reply by Mark Wrubel on February 1, 2019 at 4:45pm

I sent him a message to dig it out of the garbage.  Reply back was that it was outside in the lidless garbage can and it was snowing.  

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