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Permalink Reply by Paulrichards on March 12, 2018 at 6:24pm

I don’t like the signature on the letter regardless of certificate. I believe it is secretarial. The envelope shows a printed or lithographed sig.

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Permalink Reply by Daniel S. on March 12, 2018 at 6:28pm

Thanks Paul.

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Permalink Reply by James on March 12, 2018 at 10:03pm

Dan, Paul is correct.  JSA GOT IT WRONG!  And they just evaluated this a couple of months ago.  Wow.  This is indeed secretarial!  Straight out of Charles Hamilton's book, The Robot That Helped Make a President, this is identified as Secretary III.  You need to get a refund.  But because of JSA's ineptness by issuing an LOA, this probably complicates things.

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Permalink Reply by Daniel S. on March 13, 2018 at 5:03am

James, after conducting the research after the purchase , I am left with the same unfortunate conclusion. I will likely have to pay the price for not being more thorough prior to bidding.  I appreciate the thoughts and expertise of the group.

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Permalink Reply by Tim H on March 13, 2018 at 6:05am

Here are the book pages that show Kennedy secretary III examples.KennedySecretary111.jpg

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Permalink Reply by Daniel S. on March 13, 2018 at 7:22am

Thanks, Tim.  I agree with the group.  I would think Spence would be embarrassed by this.  I swear....hard to find anyone out there to trust!

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Permalink Reply by Jason Strecker on March 13, 2018 at 10:04am

As long as he's making money off of the amount of people who trust his "opinion" he will surely never be embarrassed. They should have a better business bureau for JSA (maybe they do) which should feature all the times the LOA got it wrong.

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Permalink Reply by Paulrichards on March 13, 2018 at 10:53am

I’m not sure when, where, or how JSA became accepted as an authority on historical as opposed to sports autographs. Certainly, those of us who collected in the heyday of Batchelder, my namesake, joe Rubinfine, Catherine Barnes, Hamilton, sesslers, Walter r Benjamin and the like would not be depending on third party organizations such as JSA. As I recall, JSA grew to prominence around the time of Mastronet.

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Permalink Reply by Daniel S. on March 13, 2018 at 1:07pm

I certainly will not be depending on them going forward.  It will be a painful lesson.

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Permalink Reply by Daniel S. on March 13, 2018 at 1:53pm

I would think that at some point your lack of credibility adversely impacts your bottom line, especially in an era where information is essentially ubiquitous.

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Permalink Reply by James on March 13, 2018 at 4:21pm

Are you going to try to get a refund?  

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Permalink Reply by Daniel S. on March 13, 2018 at 6:18pm

Unfortunately I cannot hold the auction house accountable, anymore than I hold myself responsible.  They do not specialize in this stuff and acquired it as part of an estate.

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