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Permalink Reply by Steve Cyrkin, Admin on July 26, 2012 at 9:34am

The autograph is one of the common forgeries.

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Permalink Reply by Fuddjcal on July 26, 2012 at 9:35am

The copy of that contract has been passed around the forgery industry like a $2 whore with that horrible forgery. The copy of the contract has an authentic Mantle autograph. All you have to do is to compare the 2 signatures, but sadly many buyers can't even do that.

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Permalink Reply by 3aa9dy65fy4sz on July 27, 2012 at 9:38am

Thanks for this!  I've also looked at the seller's "Joe Dimaggio" for sale, and it doesn't look good to me -- no "i" and a small-case "m".  What do you think of it?  -- Regards, jack

http://www.ebay.com/itm/Joe-Dimaggio-Signed-Autographed-Professiona...

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Permalink Reply by CJCollector on July 27, 2012 at 9:43am

Correct, Jack.  All of his Mantle, DiMaggio and William stuff is not authentic.

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Permalink Reply by 3aa9dy65fy4sz on July 27, 2012 at 10:22am

Chris:  Just looked, and both these items are no longer available.  Interesting! Unfortunately, so many other questionables remain.

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Permalink Reply by DB on July 27, 2012 at 1:21pm

Jack, anyone can report a bogus item.  Several mbrs, imo, have a streamlined approach which is why certain items disappear much quicker than others.   Incidently, several that I choose not to post as it would be ad nauseum were removed for policy violations for alluding to having a COA but not having it either depicted nor properly described in the text are both violations of EBAY policy.   It's good to see policy violations being reported are starting to be removed as well. 

Unfortunately, since it has already been removed one can't find the seller from the post as the Seller was not identified. that seller would be a candidate for suspension if he indeed was selling an abundance of non authentic items as claimed.

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Permalink Reply by 3aa9dy65fy4sz on July 27, 2012 at 1:43pm

Thanks, DB.  I copied the seller's ebay name, if this helps: it's parsonsfw. 

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Permalink Reply by CJCollector on July 27, 2012 at 9:49am

It's those same forgeries with the YMC Sports and Myst-O-Graph COAs.  These forgeries are out there by the thousands.

http://www.ebay.com/itm/Mantle-Williams-Signed-Autographed-Professi...

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