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Roger Maris Mickey Mantle Forged Autographed Photo From Florida COA GFA Florida COAs
Below you will find one forged photo/image of Roger Maris and Mickey Mantle that are accompanied by various Florida COAs and Guaranteed Forensic Authenticators (Stephen Rocchi).
First, immediately below is a thread I posted on various forged Roger Maris and Mickey Mantle photos with worthless COAs from Guaranteed Forensic Authenticators (GFA and Stephen Rocchi).
It's laughable when Ebay sellers list these as "rare." There is nothing "rare" about the below forgeries. They are mass-produced out of Florida and not even hand-penned. Produced by a machine on ink-jet paper.
https://live.autographmagazine.com/forum/topics/roger-maris-forgeri...
The below forged Roger Maris and Mickey Mantle photo was sold by Ebay seller Heroesofthegame_305 for a whopping $240.00.
No one sells an authentic one of these for $240.00 unless you are well aware that you're selling a set of forgeries. The aforementioned seller is one of approximately two dozen "Florida" sellers of forgeries.
This one below is listed by Ebay seller M20j00s with a laughable starting bid of $1,499.00 and a Buy It Now of $2,999.00.
https://www.ebay.com/itm/Mickey-Mantle-and-Roger-Maris-autographed-...
Worthless COA from PTC out of "Florida," of course.
Sold by Ebay seller Pan4life14, a consistent seller of the "Florida" forgeries for years.
This one comes with a worthless COA from Guaranteed Forensic Authenticators (GFA and Stephen Rocchi). Rocchi and his Group have "authenticated" hundreds of sets of Roger Maris and Mickey Mantle forgeries. Fact is, I have yet to see one authentic autograph that is accompanied with a COA from GFA. Just a bunch of forensic BS.
Sold by Florida and Ebay seller Markitdown247 and it sold for a whopping $111.50 with a worthless COA from GFA and Stephen Rocchi.
This crap continues to devalue the authentic autograph collections from genuine autograph collectors and I will continue to expose Ebay sellers of this garbage.
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Permalink Reply by terrier8HOF on
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All of the Roger's are in black and the Mickey's are in blue, they must have signed these all at the same private signing.
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Permalink Reply by CJCollector on
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As a matter of fact, you're right, Terrier.
I think Mr. Florida had another private signing with Roger and Mickey last year.
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The people (not true autograph collectors) who buy and sell this crap are either scammers or totally delusional.
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I was doing a search on ebay to see who was selling these photos, and one caught my eye because it has a BIN price of $2999.00. I looked at the seller's other items, and while there are some authentic items (I noticed two with JSA certs), there is also an abundance of "junk", one in particular is an Aaron Judge ball with one of the bogus AAA certs. I may be wrong, but this appears to be an honest seller that is putting too much emphasis on COA's. Most scammers' pricing reflects the fact that they know what they are selling. In this case, that may not be the case.
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You might be right, Terrier. Looks like that seller has "faith" in all COAs.
Look at these forged Mickey Mantle and Aaron Judge pieces.
First, the GFA-certed crap. Mass-produced forged Mantle out of Florida.
This Aaron Judge is laughable. Observe how the forgers, for the most part, use cheap baseballs.
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I don't think that seller is a scammer either, Terrier...just naive and obviously DOES NOT know autographs at all.
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That's a nice one.
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Ebay's lack of attention and concern for this spread of forgeries, and bogus certs has made it easy for these forgers to peddle their junk. Either through scammers that know what they have, or honest sellers that just don't know the difference. Either way it is killing the hobby.
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