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Possible Mickey Mantle Auto

I am new to the site, and trying to learn all I can from everyone. I have come across this Mickey Mantle 536 HR's baseball. I have a feeling it is a fake due to the N looking like a U but I could be wrong. Thanks for the help.

Tags: Mantle, Mickey, Yankees

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Permalink Reply by Steve Zarelli on March 21, 2016 at 10:59am

Your instincts are correct. This is a common mass-produced fake style.

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Permalink Reply by Justin DeLaet on March 21, 2016 at 11:01am

Are you able to clue me in on what is exactly wrong, so I can better understand all the elements.

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Permalink Reply by Mike P on March 21, 2016 at 11:06am

If you look closely, you can also see it was slowly written and shaky a bit. Another telltale sign of a Mantle forgery, in addition to what Steve said.

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Permalink Reply by terrier8HOF on March 21, 2016 at 11:57am

very common forgery style. the best way to learn Mantle is to compare several PSA or JSA or SGC certed examples, and then compare these forgery styles which are out there in the hundreds.

at some point it will click, and become very obvious.