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Sopranos tshirt failed Beckett - next steps?
My signed Sopranos tshirt failed Beckett authentication, which is a bit of a bummer as I thought it was a sure thing and it feels like the best part of $200 down the drain.
Maybe I was too enamoured with having landed a dream item, but I've become pretty familiar with the signatures of the Sopranos cast and was sure these were real. If they're not, there's a master forger out there and I applaud their creativity to include some of the minor players along with the Exec Producer.
I wonder if any of you have any thoughts, particularly regarding next steps? I shan't be throwing good money after bad by asking PSA to take a look, but I should have the protection of requesting a refund via Paypal. That said, there's still a part of me that wonders if Beckett have got this wrong (though I appreciate this is probably wishful thinking). What would you do?
Any wisdom gratefully received.
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Permalink Reply by Eric Keith Longo on
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I believe I have seen one of these here before. You should be able to request a refund from the seller?
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I see - it was yours. I would send a good set of large scans to ACOA.
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You wrote previously it has no history but you are certain it is genuine. How?
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Permalink Reply by Molly’sChambers on
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Hi Eric,
Many thanks for your replies.
Its provenance is weak- perhaps it was the classic estate sale yarn. But I had no reason to disbelieve the seller. I checked each of the autos I was unfamiliar with, and saw it was silver marker once in hand. As I say, I was probably caught up in having landed what for me was a dream item.
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Before paying for another opinion, non-refundable, see if folks here can assess this item. Maybe zoom in an post just the Gandolfini etc. in another thread?
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Are all these cast members in the pilot?
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If BAS is mistaken they got some 25 autographs wrong?
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Yes, I suppose that is one way to look at it. The order began with the James Gandolfini auto and then the total number of sigs was added to the order, which boosted the submission fee. The Not Authentic email notification only refers to Gandolfini, but that’s probably just shorthand.
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Probably a form letter. Perhaps just send the Gandolfini to ACOA and see.
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With group or team items, a TPA might fail it for one bad autograph. It’s possible, for an item like this, that they didn’t like the Gandolfini and failed the whole thing.
To make a sports analogy, if you submit a 90s Bulls team signed item and the TPA doesn’t like the Jordan, it fails; they won’t care if the Jack Haley is legit.
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Permalink Reply by JMS1223 on
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It could be that Beckett failed this simply because a vast majority of these cast signed items are usually forgeries. They may not have even looked at it and just went by statistics. I think usually 99% of cast signed items are fakes so the very few authentic ones are very rare. I have seen Beckett fail authentic autographs before and authenticate absolute fake ones (such as a preprint Obama Senate letter). I would definitely focus on one or two of the main signatures and submit those individually to another authentication company so they don’t just lump it into the “this is cast signed, so it has to be fake” group.
Good luck and let us know what happens.
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