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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 Rick Meyer on March 20, 2013 at 5:12pm: Here is another by EBAY crook sweet2daeyes I find item hardonmy2eyes

Comment by Null on March 20, 2013 at 5:44pm: I've posted eBay seller "sweet2daeyes" on here twice before, it keeps getting removed and they keep adding it. BUT IT HAS A COA IT MUST BE REAL!!!!!!!!

Comment by CJCollector on March 20, 2013 at 5:55pm: Might be time to give EBay seller sweet2daeyes his own blog.

Comment by Null on March 21, 2013 at 2:17pm: Here is a typical piece of crap Mantle listed by eBay seller slapstick54

You would think buyers of this crap would be a little skeptical when the COA says "Signed by_____________________" LOL.

http://www.ebay.com/itm/MICKEY-MANTLE-AUTOGRAPHED-PHOTO-/1510161025...

Comment by CJCollector on March 21, 2013 at 3:47pm: Yeah, Ryan, these Ebay scammers continue to use fake Scoreboard COAs to sell their forgeries.

Typical Mickey Mantle forgery. This above Mantle forgery is listed by Ebay seller slapstick54.

Comment by Null on March 22, 2013 at 9:24am: Same Mantle/Ford forgery we've seen 1,000 times listed by eBay seller frankiedeisel2316.

http://www.ebay.com/itm/MICKEY-MANTLE-WHITEY-FORD-DUAL-AUTOGRAPH-WI...

Comment by MICHAEL A BUMGARNER on March 24, 2013 at 2:39pm: I just had someone sell me some of this stuff at my store and I agreed to buy them but told them I could not pay for them right now, it would be a couple of weeks. I started looking on here and ebay. I found some of the pictures on someones store and they are listed as reprints. They were identical to what was in my store. I took one out of the frame and matting it was in and they are not even hand signed. I have been out of this business for a few years and could not believe this could be done. They looked really good but should have known better.

Comment by Null on March 25, 2013 at 6:54am: Here is a Monkey Mantle forgery with SB COA listed by eBay seller chaseter14

http://www.ebay.com/itm/Mickey-Mantle-Autographed-Bobby-Brown-Baseb...

Comment by CJCollector on March 25, 2013 at 5:11pm: The Ebay scammers continue to use the Scoreboard COA with a hologram to sell their forgeries.

Here's a set of Mickey Mantle and Joe DiMaggio forgeries.

This set of Mantle and DiMaggio forgeries is listed by EBay seller jcarson12.

http://www.ebay.com/itm/Joe-DiMaggio-and-Mickey-Mantle-Autogrphed-P...

Comment by Null on March 27, 2013 at 1:30pm: Here's a piece of crap trio forgery listed by eBay seller tulpanas1980

I'm sure eBay seller tulpanas1980 picked this up at an estate sale/flea market/auction thinking they found the "diamond in the rough" and couldn't wait to flip it on eBay. Only $3,000 BIN. LMAO. You can tell these people know nothing about autographs by their starting prices.

http://www.ebay.com/itm/Ted-William-Joe-Dimaggio-MIckey-Mantle-Auto...