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Mantle & DiMaggio Forged Baseball With Fake Scoreboard COA: Scoreboard Did Not Use Holograms!

Over the last few months we have seen the old Scoreboard COA (and reproductions of the old Scoreboard COA) being tainted with holograms.

The holograms being attached to the Scoreboard COA is an attempt to convince autograph collectors (actually wannabe autograph collectors) that the autograph(s) they are purchasing are authentic. This, of course, is not the case.

Original Scoreboard COAs never had holograms attached to them.

Before we started seeing the Scoreboard COA with holograms, the old Scoreboard COA was being reproduced in the thousands to sell forgeries. Wannabe autograph collectors have purchased thousands upon thousands of forgeries accompanied with a original Scoreboard COA or a reproduced Scoreboard COA.

This blog will be used to expose those sellers that are selling forgeries using a Scoreboard COA (or a reproduction) with the hologram attached to it.

The first one we will show here is listed by Ebay seller vintarage.

This is a set of Mickey Mantle and Joe DiMaggio forgeries on a baseball with a Scoreboard COA with a hologram attached to it.

http://www.ebay.com/itm/MICKEY-MANTLE-JOE-DiMAGGIO-DUAL-SIGNED-BASE...

Forged Mickey Mantle baseball. Not a Scoreboard product.

These are Florida Forgeries. Whitey did not sign the piece. Both the Mantle and Ford are forgeries. Those who sell forgeries of this image always use the photo of Whitey signing that image to sell the forged Mantle/Ford image. Note the hologram. Scoreboard did not use holograms.

Look at this crap. Fake Scoreboard COA with hologram.

Here are a set of Mickey Mantle and Ted Williams forgeries. This image has been produced in the thousands by Mr. Florida. Not only are they laughable forgeries, but they aren't even hand-penned forgeries; they are copies produced on inkjet paper.

Forged Mantle/Ford photo produced out of Florida. Mr. Florida has infected the hobby with tens of thousands of forgeries.

Florida hologram on it.

Here are a set of forged set of "500 Homerun" players with a fake Scoreboard COA. As you can plainly see these are "Florida" forgeries.

Here is a Joe DiMaggio forged photo with a bogus Scoreboard COA. The idiot who applied those holograms to copied Scoreboard COAs must be a moron.

https://www.ebay.com/itm/253656484477?ViewItem=&item=253656484477

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Comment by Fuddjcal on February 21, 2013 at 8:22am: agreed...this is why this has become a hobby of MORONS & complete anal idiots..Plain & Simple

Comment by CJCollector on February 21, 2013 at 1:46pm: @ZombieSwil.

You probably purchased your Mantle forgery from a local auction, charity auction, UBid, Proxibid, AuctionZip, etc. That's where these forgeries are mainly being auctioned off and sold to people who know zero about autographs and are looking to flip them on Ebay.

Comment by ZombieSwil on February 21, 2013 at 5:49pm: Chris -

That is an accurate assessment. These auctions are fast paced and to the untrained eye, the item looks authentic as was presented as such.

I'm currently seeking a refund from the source and more information about the origins of this item.

Comment by CJCollector on February 21, 2013 at 6:04pm: I hope you get a refund, Zombie. EBay has been doing a great job of removing those forgeries.

That garbage is usually sold with COAs from Nicholas Burczyk, CSC Collectibles, YMC Sports, MFP Reborn, Myst-O-Graph and others.

Comment by Ken Goldin on February 21, 2013 at 7:04pm: anyone who wishes to contact me on this, or for any help in the future email me at

ken@goldinauctions.com

anything i can do to help you and others avoid the crap i will do

Comment by Ryan Dillman on February 22, 2013 at 1:21pm: My local auction house has some autos for sale this week, Mickey Mantle, etc. I was excited until I saw the COAs in the pics. Look like fake autos with fake Scoreboard COAs. Also COAs from My Favorite Players Inc. which are also fake. http://www.auctionzip.com/cgi-bin/photopanel.cgi?listingid=1660014&...

Comment by Null on February 22, 2013 at 1:25pm: They are horrific forgeries. Avoid at all cost.

Comment by Null on February 22, 2013 at 1:26pm: It's crazy you would think these morons would at least fill in the BLANK SPACE where the person's name is supposed to be who autographed it!

Comment by Null on February 26, 2013 at 2:49pm: Another piece of crap Mantle with a fake Scoreboard COA. This one is listed by eBay seller fsle3795

http://www.ebay.com/itm/Signed-Mickey-Mantle-poster-/261176526549?p...

Once again the "autographed by" part is blank.

Comment by CJCollector on February 26, 2013 at 4:18pm: Typical Mickey Mantle forgery, Ryan, as we all know. Just another EBay scammer using a Scoreboard COA to sell a Mickey Mantle forgery.

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