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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 CJCollector on April 7, 2013 at 1:13pm: These Ebay scammers continue to try to sell their forgeries using bogus Scoreboard COAs.

This set of Mickey Mantle and Willie Mays forgeries is listed by Ebay seller austinb1997.

Typical "Florida" forgeries.

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

Comment by Rick Meyer on April 7, 2013 at 1:28pm: Yep another idiot thief. They will do anything to rip someone off. Who in their right mind would put both those sigs on a 5x7? Not many.

Comment by Null on April 22, 2013 at 6:30am: Sellers continue to use the tainted Scoreboard COA's to sell horrific forgeries. This Ted/Mick "Florida Forgery" is listed by eBay seller weebeejunk , funny, because this is 100% junk.

http://www.ebay.com/itm/MICKEY-MANTLE-TED-WILLIAMS-AUTO-AUTOGRAPH-6...

Comment by R T on May 20, 2014 at 7:14am: Does anyone have pictures of accurate Score board Inc. Certs to compare to the fake Certs? I've seen Score board Inc. stickers that are stuck on the back of items that are in color (blue logo). These fakes are black and white and are a Cert Card that aren't attached to an item and have holo stickers attach to both the item and cert card.

Comment by R T on May 21, 2014 at 8:21am: I wanted to post a legit coa from scoreboard for people to see that are unfamiliar, so they don't mistaken the fakes with the valid ones. After looking at the Autograph I believe it and the COA are valid.( Note - there is no numbered hologram on either the item and the Cert card)

Comment by Steve Zarelli on May 21, 2014 at 8:27am: Correct. The real Scoreboard COAs never had a hologram and they were printed on a off-white parchment type paper that had a watermark on the back. The problem is, in addition to the totally counterfeit Scoreboard certs, you also have real Scoreboard certs that have been swapped out and paired with a bad item.