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Permalink Reply by Rick Meyer on March 17, 2014 at 5:04pm

I have never seen a GFA sticker on an authentic item. Those are all forgeries.

Permalink Reply by Frankie Turner on March 17, 2014 at 5:11pm

yeah they all looked pretty horrific to me.

Permalink Reply by CJCollector on March 17, 2014 at 5:08pm

All you have to do is do a Google search on "Mickey Mantle Forgery GFA COA."

Permalink Reply by Frankie Turner on March 17, 2014 at 5:12pm

I will, they looked like some fakes I've seen posted on here before,the way the I is in particular in Mickey.

 

Permalink Reply by CJCollector on March 17, 2014 at 5:20pm

It's all crap "authenticated (cough, cough)" by Steve Rocchi.

Permalink Reply by Frankie Turner on March 17, 2014 at 5:26pm

I hear ya. thanks for the heads up. I passed it along. They sent up red flags as soon as I saw them and I'm no expert but I trust the people here to call things what they are lol

Permalink Reply by Null on March 18, 2014 at 7:34am

GFA (Guaranteed Forged Autograph) stay away.

Permalink Reply by Frankie Turner on March 18, 2014 at 8:28am

lol, good one!!!  I was never interested in buying any of that stuff but it's worth it to know what GFA is. I had a friend come to me (I don't know why that always happens, I guess they think I know something lol) with this auction site, he lives in Tennessee and said he knew the guy who ran the auction and knew I was a Yankee fan who collected Mick stuff. I went to the site and the Mickey auto just didn't look right at all so that's why I came here asking about GFA...Didn't even think to google because I've gotten so much good info and help from you guys that I'd rather just ask here. I told him what was up and sent him a link to those GFA forgery alerts on google and he said he would let the guy at the auction know about it. I told him I didn't think that the auction knew they were fake but even so that someone shouldn't be able to unload some known fakes and get their money back or maybe the auction did know. either way the autographs got called out for what they are and that is fake.