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Authentication and Forgery Alert

Discuss authentication issues within the industry, including but not limited to 3rd party authentication. It's also a "clearing house" for suspected forgeries.

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Looking for an old Elvis signature study (Bakker fakes - John Reznikoff)

Started by Markus Fischer. Last reply by Markus Fischer Jun 22. 1 Reply

Dear members of the "Authentication and Forgery Alert" forum,would you, please, be so kind to help me? I am desperately looking for an old signature study which the founder of this forum, John…Continue

Kendrick Lamar signed full name on vanity

Started by David De La Paz. Last reply by J.Seah Jul 10, 2021. 1 Reply

Does anyone have knowledge on Kendrick Lamar's full name signature. This piece is currently on eBay. I just ran a quick opinion from PSA/DNA and they said "unlikley Genuine" I hope the community can…Continue

Tags: name, PSA, opinion, full, signed

Beware nokids2003 selling fake Metallica - always with Cliff

Started by Stephen Patrick. Last reply by Stephen Patrick Jan 13, 2020. 2 Replies

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What Do You Think About The Autographs Sold By This Seller?

Started by Daniel Alayof. Last reply by Chad B Aug 21, 2019. 1 Reply

Hi. I would appreciate your opinion about this seller and the autographs that he recently sold. Please click on the link to see his sold autographs. What do you think?…Continue

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Comment by kissdestroyer1966 on November 15, 2012 at 2:24pm

Do NOT EVERY buy anything from AUTOGRAPHS NETWORK.COM (used to be Autographs America run by Brian Burke). He and his company are 100% FAKE!!!!!!! He has artists sign guitars, drum heads, albums, posters, etc. He lists at relatively high prices and always runs 90% to 95% off which brings the pricing down to a reasonable amount. I promise you his stuff is as bad as it gets. Please do not purchase from him or his Internet Store!!!!

Comment by ROY MANZO on October 21, 2012 at 9:06pm

What can be done to get the non authentic items removed from ebay.

Comment by Chad B on October 21, 2012 at 8:21pm

I just checked out  

authentic_sports_memorabilia and I don't trust them. I think the others would be much the same. This "sports" guy was able to get 4 Mitt Romney signed 11X14s signed perfectly as well as many other superstars multiple times. 
 
Comment by Chris Smith on October 21, 2012 at 7:28pm

Roy I cant agree more seller mvp-authentics has all private Listings also has changed his user name 7 times in 2 year's. He show's 3 tickets to a Rangers Tigers Game and Managed to get Miguel Cabrera to sign 11 separate Items along with 2 Detroit Tigers Team Jersey's and several Justin Verlander's. Most people are happy getting 1 of the very tough Verlander. All I can say is WOW. He also managed to get Nolan Ryan on several things and all The Texas Rangers. By the way the 3 proof picture's are all from Different times. Jose Valverde is about 30 pounds heavier than there proof picture from years ago. As far as Dirty_Water_INK it is crazy how this guy can get all these autographs and still find time to list Ebay amazes me. He also has private feedback and gets Tom Brady Derek Jeter and every college football player known to man. He must do a lot of Private Signing's because he manage's to get the 2 to 3 best players to sign his stuff.

Comment by ROY MANZO on October 21, 2012 at 5:46pm

Can someone please give me there opinions on these ebay accounts. Hopefully I will get a response.

Upon doing ebay searches for autographs to add to my collection I am very upset when I search and find item after item that are gai and what do you know a lot of these sellers have a ton of quantity. Can someone check these account out and let me know what they think.

bahusker5

moulinrougeone

 
Comment by Adam Nicholls on October 12, 2012 at 7:44pm

was wondering about a tom brady autograph 

Comment by Jeffery Kite on August 8, 2012 at 6:33am

And Mike, I think Harry is focusing in on the crossing of the letter "L" in my autograph, and the crossing of the letter "T" in many of the autographs being shown in the Lawrence Taylor autograph discussion.

Comment by Jeffery Kite on August 8, 2012 at 6:29am

I've talked to a PSA guy once, and I asked very politely why they have the set up the way they do, and here's what I was told: they don't want to listen to the story because they want to look at the item from the get go without any bias. If I handed you a John Travolta autograph and said, "Look what I got in the mail!" you would already have big giant blinking red flags!!! But if I handed it to you with no story behind it, no provinence, etc., you are more apt to look at it for what it is, how it looks, compared to real exemplars, and take it on face value alone without being influenced in any kind of way, therefore more able to make an honest, uninfluenced, judgement. And, yes, they do take into account that autographs change, and they have this "super computer" database that has all these different variations of the person's autograph whom they are trying to authenticate, so they go through each of them and find the one most similar, and go from there. The exemplars are dated by year, so if they ever need to ask the person when did this piece get signed, then they could go back and look at that time frame and see what the signer was doing with his/her autograph. I feel pretty confident about PSA's and JSA's processes. JSA told me the same process that I just described.

Comment by James Lafaman on August 7, 2012 at 8:48pm

Hard to say. Hopefully they keep a database of signatures from different points in time and note the changes. For what they charge, they certainly should.

Comment by James Lafaman on August 7, 2012 at 8:38pm

So true. We say it all the time. I have LT on a football and other items as well, that look nothing like the one I posted earlier. Got the football in person years ago and it has more of a Lawrence than the one now, but even the Taylor is different. They do not look alike but I know both are real, because both were signed in front of me. I think you said it best, when you simply stated that authenticating is a tough business and that's why so many mistakes get made.

 

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