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Permalink Reply by Steve Cyrkin, Admin on February 3, 2011 at 12:52pm

Here are a couple of posts on Piece of the Past:

http://live.autographmagazine.com/profiles/blogs/kevin-martins-piec...

http://live.autographmagazine.com/profiles/blogs/piece-of-the-past-...

 

 

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Permalink Reply by Jon Sam on February 3, 2011 at 3:43pm

So I thought the guy that owned Piece of the Past wrote an authentication book or like 12 or something? Is all his stuff no good? I have bought a few items from him and am now a little concerned.

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Permalink Reply by Steve Cyrkin, Admin on February 3, 2011 at 7:29pm

I don't know. I haven't seen much of his inventory, and I'm no expert. Some fakes are easy for almost anyone with a little experience and some good exemplars to tell. Some are lots harder. 

The way a dealers handles complaints and guarantee requests speaks volumes. Dealers that give you a hard time, make excuses, unduly accuse you of switching things, etc., are typically the ones that sell questionable material.

Kevin wrote The Official Autograph Collector Authentication Guide--a big yellow book. When we bought the company in 2004, we had the autograph exemplars checked out and found many that our experts had problems with. I recalled the books from the bookstores and Amazon and ordered them to be destroyed. 

 

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Permalink Reply by Jon Sam on February 3, 2011 at 3:47pm

I also keep trying to look up the article by Roger Furr about Piece of the Past and it wont come up???

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Permalink Reply by Steve Cyrkin, Admin on February 3, 2011 at 7:14pm

You tried the links above? It's one of them. They worked for me.

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Permalink Reply by Steve Cyrkin, Admin on February 3, 2011 at 8:34pm

http://live.autographmagazine.com/profiles/blogs/kevin-martins-piec...

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Permalink Reply by Roger Furr on February 4, 2011 at 11:58am

Piece of the past ...STAY AWAY FROM THEM...they sale junk ..I purchased a John Wayne signature for them had JSA,PSA and Bob Eaton look at it and it was trash... I called them and told them who all looked at the item and the guy on the phone put down every authenticator that was mentioned. He also said that the signature probably wasn't the one that I purchased from them...

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