Comment by CMac-67 on October 8, 2021 at 10:30am

Thanks Nick, can't wait to see your piece when it's finished.  This matting / frame job started out as my LSU colored purple & gold setup for my PSA/DNA Graded 10 GM & encapsulated signed check by Pete Maravich, then I sold it so we did the best we could with what we had left over.  I sure miss that Maravich though :(

Comment by Nick Dimeo on October 8, 2021 at 10:34am

I can’t stand those sterile cumbersome PSA holders that checks particularly are encapsulated in. I think you did a very good job on the framing. Are you able to see the Garbo endorsement on the back, however?

Comment by CMac-67 on October 8, 2021 at 10:42am

I agree, the back of the Maravich piece got pretty bulky holding onto the slabbed Maravich check.  On the Garbo, my framer put a purple background just laying under her signed check, so you can't see the endorsed part of the back of the check since he laid the purple background drop behind the check, as he thought the colors would be consistent throughout the matting / frame job this way.

Comment by Nick Dimeo on October 8, 2021 at 10:51am

At least you have a photo of the endorsement. I’ve researched Garbo extensively and have never seen any piece twice signed by her, it’s phenomenal! Garbo actually hated writing checks because they never would be cashed and kept for a collectible which completely messed up her impeccable accounting standards.

Comment by CMac-67 on October 8, 2021 at 11:01am

Yes, for sure.  I always take pics or keep the nicer scans of things I win in my auctions.  It's also very cool that both autographs grade about a 10/10, very bold with what she wrote it out and signed it with.  Funny, I also read as much as I could about her, and she just hated signing autographs for fans, and people keeping her checks because they knew that's the only way they would get one ;-)   I wish there would have been a way that he could have showed both sides when putting it together, but at least we all knew if it was made out to cash, she had no choice but to sign the back also.  I miss Steve's worst signers articles from the magazine, she would have definitely made the lifetime list of worst signers....Ha ha.

Comment by Nick Dimeo on October 21, 2021 at 6:21pm

I think Michaels did a pretty good job with it but I probably would have liked the check matted and not floating but I was talked out of it by the framer. Also, the check obviously has a cancellation stamp on the signature but for the price I got this for I literally stole it.

Comment by CMac-67 on October 24, 2021 at 2:15pm

Wow, that's very nice Nick, they definitely did a great job on it.  Nice layout too.

Comment by Nick Dimeo on October 24, 2021 at 2:36pm

Thanks so much! I am working on an Errol Flynn now with Michaels. They get knocked a lot for being a big box store but they do a really good job and run great sales on nice frames.

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