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Vikings Blood Legacy & Vikings Sword of Kings: Is PSA Quick Opinion virtually worthless for more experienced collectors?

I just received two "Likely Not Genuine" opinions on items that I am 99% sure are authentic. This came as a shock to me - both items are multi-signed items (10 and 4 signatures respectively) that have many spot-on signatures I am familiar with. The seller is also very reputable and works in official partnership with the studio (MGM) that employs the actors who signed the items (MGM even confirmed this partnership with me). I was hoping to use the QO to serve as the final "nail in the coffin", but apparently PSA QO thinks these are fakes. Should PSA's opinion simply be completely discarded in this situation?

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Permalink Reply by Eric Keith Longo on March 10, 2021 at 6:43pm

I would think the sticker could be put on a whatever they issue. ACOA is a group of advanced experts who will spend more than a minute on your item and then Justin Steffman renders a final opinion. Much better than fast glance by who knows who. If warranted, then send it to them for a full exam and papers.

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Permalink Reply by David on March 10, 2021 at 6:46pm

Thanks for the tip - I'll inquire with them. Hopefully they can put in on the COA instead of the item.

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Permalink Reply by Steve Zarelli on March 10, 2021 at 7:06pm

Use the online opinion service first, then worry about the sticker if it passes the initial screen.

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Permalink Reply by Eric Keith Longo on March 10, 2021 at 7:11pm

+1 exactly

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Permalink Reply by David on March 10, 2021 at 7:35pm

Makes sense. I sent them a message this morning about creating an account with them. Waiting on them to respond.

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Permalink Reply by David on March 18, 2021 at 2:18pm

Thread update - both items passed ACOA pre-certification, in addition to another cast-signed item I submitted from the same seller.

Would you consider this to mean the autographs on both comic books are very likely to be authentic? As mentioned previously, I also believed them to be authentic from my own observation. There were simply too many autographs that looked spot-on to me (especially the autographs of Clive Standen, Gustaf Skarsgard and George Blagden) that I believed it would have taken an highly, highly talented forger to pull this off all on the first try. I do acknowledge there is a certain "sameness" to some of the autographs - I actually did have this thought when I first saw the item, but I assumed it to be a coincidence because I trusted the source.

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Permalink Reply by David on March 19, 2021 at 12:13pm

Here's one example of the detail with which a forger would have needed to have in order to pull this off (and one of the reasons why I believe these items are likely authentic, independent of ACOA's opinion):

This is the signature of Clive Standen, certainly not a well known signature by any means. From studying his signature, he always writes the first letter of his name (C) as the LAST stroke in his signature, which is apparent on both of the comic book examples from examining the ink. I'm assuming this a pretty uncommon thing for someone to do. I believe that most forgers would not have picked up on this, especially when his signature is only 1 out of 10 on the comic book.