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Permalink Reply by ben jackson on June 10, 2012 at 8:48pm

also came with this

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Permalink Reply by Mike P on June 11, 2012 at 12:42pm

Looks slowly drawn in my opinion.  I think it isn't authentic in my opinion; ask Mr. Zipper or Chris Williams who both know Mantle very well.  

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Permalink Reply by John Strickland on June 11, 2012 at 2:42pm

Sorry to say but that looks like a fake I was also burned on :(

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Permalink Reply by terrier8HOF on June 11, 2012 at 4:08pm

not authentic

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Permalink Reply by Steve Zarelli on June 11, 2012 at 5:44pm

Sorry, but this is undoubtedly a forgery. It is a well-known "Milkey Mautle" style. The problems are too numerous to list, but the flags under the Ms are slowly drawn, top of Ms too pointy, and the inward bend of the right side of the M in Mantle are all hallmarks of this forger's style.

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Permalink Reply by ben jackson on June 11, 2012 at 7:15pm

Thanks everyone for the input, you pretty much confirmed my suspision, now I gotta figure out how to tell my girlfriend who bought it for me.

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Permalink Reply by Steve Zarelli on June 11, 2012 at 7:39pm

Uness it is recent enough to get a refund, don't tell her. She'll feel bad. Just be happy you have a girlfriend that wanted to give you a real cool gift. :-)

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Permalink Reply by ben jackson on June 12, 2012 at 10:48am

Thanks again for all your knowlegde, would you all agree that If I find one that is already a PSA/DNA cert then i can assume it is the real deal? I know that JSA have a bad rep but never heard bad about PSA

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Permalink Reply by Steve Zarelli on June 12, 2012 at 12:07pm

When it comes to baseball items such as Mantle, both PSA and JSA have a very high accuracy rate.

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Permalink Reply by ben jackson on June 12, 2012 at 11:44am

What is you all's opinion on this? I'm trying to learn all I can to determine the fakes and save this mistake from happening again. Too many dishonest people out there that try to sell fakes.

http://www.ebay.com/itm/PSA-DNA-MICKEY-MANTLE-AUTOGRAPHED-SIGNED-AM...

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Permalink Reply by Steve Zarelli on June 12, 2012 at 12:07pm

Good.

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