Comment by Steve Cyrkin, Admin on May 9, 2011 at 9:46pm

Rick, that was a VERY good question. He forensically examined 1,200 the same day? Hang on...maybe he really did 1,200 the same week. If he worked 6 days that week he would have only had to do 200 a day. Chris Morales testified that Drew Max is the only authenticator he regularly consults with, and Chris testified that he spends 2-3 hours authenticating each autograph. If Drew spent 6 days doing those 1,200 pieces, that would be one every couple of minutes. That's impressively fast for forensic examination...don't you think?

 

Hello History Channel..."Pawn Stars"...this is who you're trying to pawn off as an autograph expert!

Comment by Rick Meyer on May 9, 2011 at 10:10pm

Yes. Another interesting fact while looking at things with an AAU cert that I came across is two Pink Floyd albums authenticatd with Syd Barrett signatures. I don't think there are but maybe 4 or 5 examples of his signatures. Wondered how Drew got his hands on exemplars??? I posed the same question to the______ company that is peddling all this junk. I asked them since you have tens of thousands approved by all these authenticators could you tell me how many from each have been declined authentication? The reply I got was they were all real why would any be declined? Seemed like a very odd reply from a shaky company that knows nothing about autographs. Even the best will now and again reject an authentic signature. This happens because they are paid regardless of how their opinion turns out. If they error they will always try and error without entering a garbage piece into the hobby. Some of these goofs only get paid if they can opinion the item authentic. Who in their right mind would use Morales if actually failed something? Nobody would. Passing everything is the only way a few of these stay in business.

Comment by Steve Cyrkin, Admin on May 9, 2011 at 10:25pm

I'm aware of Morales failing autographs. But the only times I'm aware of are the so-called sting on Roger Epperson that Mike Frost later said was a scam (not that I'd trust anything Frost says either); and a customer of Autograph Central, who they sent to Morales to look at items he bought from Autographs America.

Comment by Steve Cyrkin, Admin on May 9, 2011 at 10:30pm

Who did you talk to or email at the company? And which company? The exchange, the auction vendor, our the company that supplied the vendor?

Comment by Steve Zarelli on May 10, 2011 at 5:30am

How dare you question Drew Max?!?!  Aren't you aware he has the biggest magnifying glass this side of the Hubble Telescope?  He MUST be right!  ;-)

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