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Authenticity is Everything
Should I Have Authentication Sticker Put ON Valuable Baseball?
I'm getting ready to send in my first item for JSA Authentication. It's a Mickey Mantle ROALB. I'm a bit leery about having the authentication sticker put ON the ball and am considering having it just put on the LOA. Are there thoughts on this? Any effect on long-term desirability, either way? I just don't want to have something on the ball that may cause other variations or types of discoloration or damage, in addition to age wear on the item. But, if on-the-ball is the way to go, I may consider it. Thanks!
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Permalink Reply by Corey Moylan on
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Looks a lot like mine lol. Except mines not graded. I still would trade for an unauthenticated one...
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Permalink Reply by John Spillane on
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Here's mine. Authenticated by JSA, but no sticker.
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Permalink Reply by Eric Keith Longo on
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Ugh - does that really need to say "PSA/DNA" as least five times and in 3 different ways, including a web address? Horrid.
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Permalink Reply by Steve Zarelli on
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More expensive items like Mantle, etc. REQUIRE the full letter with a photo. You can't get just the card COA.
So, my advice would be to NOT sticker the ball. Because there is a photo on the letter, the ball does not need the sticker.
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Permalink Reply by James on
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I agree completely. And if the seller has the sticker on the LOA, that should be good.
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Permalink Reply by Mike White on
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The photo on the letter AND the same photo on the online cert check.
You need both for peace of mind.
Documents, as we've seen (especially you, Steve) are somewhat trivial to fake with enough time and resources.
It's also not hard to come up with a number that'll correspond to a similarly signed item in the database.
If you can fake the document, faking the sticker is nothing.
Getting a picture of an unauthenticated item into the database or faking every nuance of an item already pictured, on the other hand, is where the sense of security comes in.
That's why I was so bemused when I bought a PSA Bob Lemon ball about 10-15 years ago, and when I contacted them about there being no photo on the cert check, they told me it must have been oversight and that I could take one and send it in.
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Permalink Reply by terrier8HOF on
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interesting discussion. I have never sent any of my baseballs to be authenticated, but I do have some that have PSA or JSA stickers and it doesn't bother me in the least.
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It's a pet peeve of mine, but another consideration for signed baseballs...
If there is the slightest bit of toning on the ball, the snow white stickers stick out like a sore thumb and accentuate the toning. I do not like the look of the white stickers on a ball that has toning. And, they almost all eventually tone.
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+1 yet another very good reason to avoid stickers/free advertising/vandalism...
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Permalink Reply by Gary Dunaier on
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I know you're talking about third-party authenticators, but Major League Baseball puts authentication stickers on their game-used baseballs. Here's a screen capture of a MLB authenticator authenticating New York Met Phillip Evans' first Major League hit (9/9/17). Note that a hologram sticker has already been affixed to the ball, just below the Rawlings logo.
Incidentally, you might find it interesting that the Mets broadcasters seemed bemused at the existence of an official authenticator...
Gary Cohen: The authenticator is authenticating. Phillip Evans' first major league hit, first major league double. "I'm the Authenticator." Authentication, Incorporated . . . [after the camera showed a close-up of the "Authentication, Inc." logo on the authenticator's jacket] . . . there you go.
Keith Hernandez; A lot of people feeding at the trough.
Gary Cohen: They want to make sure the baseball is properly authenticated. You don't want to have amateur authentications.
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