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I am looking to purchase from a guy that got this hat from Juliensauctions.com. I want to know if the hat is rare since it has Michaels name in gold and what you guys think of the signature.
Hope you can help,
Jonah Aldrete
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Most of all, there is no supplier of genuine autographs you can call and say, "send me a 'Morrison Hotel' album signed by the entire band, an 'Are You Experienced?' signed by Hendrix, a 'Houses of the Holy' and 'Led Zeppelin II' signed by all four, and a 'Sgt Pepper' band-signed in the gatefold."
"Oh...and do you have any more Beatles- or Nirvana-signed guitars in stock right now?"
Why would a company that offers big ticket autographs hire a manager who knows little to nothing about autographs? Nothing against framers, they are talented and enhance an autograph but without having a genuine autograph to start what's the point? Except...well...we won't go there!
In his defense (kind of), the autograph market is really unique. I have decades of experience in vintage sports cards and even some experience in fine art. I only recently began to focus on sports autographs as a shared interest with my son.
I don't know of any other market where such a HUGE percentage of items are fake/counterfeit. It's counter intuitive to the uninitiated. There are always unscrupulous merchants and scam artists. But in the autograph world, unscrupulous is not the exception but the rule.
I won't give this guy or his company a free pass. But I can speak from experience, when I began having an interest in autographs I had no clue it was this bad. It was almost unimaginable that the powers that be would allow it to be this bad. Yet they have, and it is.
I don't know of any other market where such a HUGE percentage of items are fake/counterfeit.
There is a very low barrier to entry to be a forger. eBay is full of forgers who use 3x5 cards and old books and albums purchased at garage sales. Or you can use 8x10 glossy photos and wash off the failed attempts.
Combine this with the fact that law enforcement doesn't care and it's hard to legally "prove" what may be obvious to seasoned collectors... and there is a huge population of uninformed buyers. It really is a recipe for chaos.
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