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RR Auction doesn't even trust the authenticators they recommend

I attempted to consign a signed album leaf by Louisiana U.S. Senator Huey P. Long, and a signed photo of Eva Peron to RR Auction to auction for me. 

Since neither item had a certificate of authenticity, RR Auction turned them down and suggested several authenticators I could contact to authenticate the pieces. One of the authenticators was James Spence. So, I submitted the Huey P Long and Eva Peron to James Spence Authenticators.

After paying $120, James Spence authenticated both pieces as genuine.

I got back to RR Auction and proudly submitted the certificates of authenticity issued by James Spence. The RR Auction rep said she would submit the info to their in-house big-wigs along with the certificates of authenticity for both the Huey P. Long and Eva Peron.

Incredibly, RR Auction wouldn't accept the certificates of authenticity from James Spence--the authenticator THEY recommended. 

Is RR Auction getting kickbacks from authenticators they suggest? 

Thanks for letting me vent,

Garrett Meadows

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For modern music, REAL. For classical, PSA/DNA, I believe.  Like you though, when I think “music”, I think modern music.

And they probably use Steve Zarelli for Space. The point is that is all autographs are pre-certified then why would they require anyone to get a TPA?

Doesn’t make sense to me.

Just find another auction to consign too!

They do. I have never heard of RR asking a potential consignor to obtain third party authentication to consign.

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Wow you got to be kidding?  So if I’m wrong please correct me, you have a signed item and the auction house wouldn’t accept it and advised you to get it authenticated by one of several TPAs and after you did so with JSA who was on that list of TPAs   they denied it? I don’t think you can make that crap up, it makes zero sense, did they have an excuse for ther change of heart on Jsa?

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I guess you can look at the bright side. You have JSA certs on them which make them more valuable. Perhaps you can try to sell them here or on eBay?

RR Auction is wrong if they made you cert them based on them accepting them as consignments then bulking. A poor way to treat someone. Bad karma.

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