Comment by Steve Cyrkin, Admin on May 21, 2012 at 2:17pm

Forensic examiners are often found at the scene of a crime.

Comment by Lou reves on May 21, 2012 at 2:54pm

I dont know about these but I think the last few things he authenticated on pawn stars looked like good calls?

Comment by Rick Meyer on May 21, 2012 at 5:02pm

Through his big giant magnafying glass he forensically noticed there was a $50 bill for each signature. Enough for him to conclude with his opinion that these were genuine.

Comment by CJCollector on May 21, 2012 at 6:54pm

That's a good one, Rick.

Comment by terrier8HOF on May 21, 2012 at 7:55pm

it is eery how close those signatures are to each other.  if he authenticated them all the same day, wouldn't he have picked up on that?  

Comment by Rick Meyer on May 21, 2012 at 9:27pm

You would think forensic analysis would be a time consuming process. These 4 Johnson's I would think would take time researching just the items they are signed on. ...date postcards made, paper, ink...etc.

Drew has a very strange habit of going hog wild on particular days. Like his marathon certification of a hundred Muhumad Ali signatures in a single day. If he worked an 8 hour day that is authenticating one every 4.8 minutes. No way. He's so good with every known signature that he can say they are good with just a quick glance. Yeah right. He's up there with the worst of them.

Comment by CJCollector on May 22, 2012 at 5:33am

Absolutely correct, Terrier.  All penned by the same hand and it wasn't Walter Johnson's hand that penned them.

Comment by Steve Cyrkin, Admin on May 22, 2012 at 10:42am

Here are a couple Walter Johnsons that just sold at the Sportscards Plus auction. Both certed by PSA/DNA and/or JSA:

Comment by Charles Irion on May 23, 2012 at 10:35pm

I agree with terrier8HOF, you would think the authenticator would have caught them.

http://www.autographhell.com/

Comment by CJCollector on May 24, 2012 at 1:17pm

Rick, from what I can see, the only forensic tool that Drew Max uses is that Hubble-sized magnifying glass.

I once contacted numerous forensic examiners to get their rates and they are not cheap. The ones I spoke to were very busy. The least expensive FDE that I contacted quoted, me $700.00 to examine one Abraham Lincoln cut signature. They want nothing to do with sports authentication and all of them wanted me to supply them with genuine exemplars.

Do Chris Morales and Drew Max even have a data base of exemplars?

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