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What is your opinion on this Mantle ball ?

Real? Or forgery?

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Permalink Reply by Richard Rothschild on December 26, 2014 at 9:13am

yes i did that with magnifying glass and there are no dots like other pre prints i have seen. The paper stock is very thin it maybe it was one of those roller pens from back in the day. This came from an estate and the other autographs in the collection were all real...what really thru me was the no impression points on the paper

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Permalink Reply by Randy on December 26, 2014 at 12:41pm

After looking closely at the enlarged picture, I agree with Terrier that it does look slowly signed. I'm on the fence but still lean toward authentic. I believe it was signed with a roller pen which might not leave much of an impression.