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Early 1950's Mickey Mantle + Roger Marris others signed ball help

I am helping a friend out. This ball was signed in person by a family member of my friend in the 50's. It has a very early Mantle autograph along with Marris and others. What would be the most cost effective method of having it authenticated? Can someone give their opinion on value? I know that signatures of players from different teams on the same ball can hurt the value but this version of Mantle's autograph seems to be very expensive.

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Thanks!

Mantle ball

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Permalink Reply by terrier8HOF on July 3, 2019 at 12:26pm

save your money. That is a stamped, souvenir ball. Not hand signed. Looks like its from the early 60's, based the signatures, sold at ball parks. Here is an example of the exact same Mantle stamp on another ball:

Image result for 1961 new york yankees souvenir baseball

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Permalink Reply by Chris Records on July 3, 2019 at 12:39pm

If thats the case she will be devastated. Why would they sell a ball with players from multiple teams on it at the ball park?

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Permalink Reply by John Spillane on July 3, 2019 at 12:54pm

Why would they sell a ball with players from multiple teams on it? Like I said, a souvenir, from the All-Star game.

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Permalink Reply by John Spillane on July 3, 2019 at 12:50pm

Terrier's right! Looks like a early '60s, stamped, souvenir, baseball from an All star game. Certainly not real.

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Permalink Reply by Eric Keith Longo on July 3, 2019 at 12:53pm

Here is a scan for comparison - I could not align them perfectly from the images:

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Permalink Reply by Chris Records on July 3, 2019 at 1:04pm

Thank you for the information, it is very obvious what this is now. My friends ex lost this ball gambling and she paid 600.00 to get it back for her son, so you can imagine how ill I feel having to share this news.