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Permalink Reply by AC on January 21, 2013 at 11:08pm

Hi Steve
I'm not sure of your business as I have not heard of it before sorry to sound rude but is it the same company as GAI or there authentication arm anyway?
Thanks

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Permalink Reply by Steve Sipe on January 22, 2013 at 7:17am

No it is not AC. That company and everything about them closed up in 2009. Their owner's assets blew up with the financial market meltdown and he closed all of his businesses down owing millions of dollars to lots of entities.

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Permalink Reply by AC on January 22, 2013 at 9:52pm

Thanks for clearing that up as I was not aware. The only reason I asked was I want to discuss the Muhammad Ali autopens (using a fake signature sample) that GAI (the other global) have authenticated as been real hand signed signatures.

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Permalink Reply by Vincent Mirabal on December 1, 2014 at 10:03am

Hello everyone,  I am new to the autograph scene, so here it goes.  Can anyone tell me if the Academy of Manuscript and Autograph (AMA) is okay to use.  Why would ebay not allow authentications from AMA if they are not part of the banned list?  The reason for asking, I have a Babe Ruth signed baseball I received many years ago from my Grandfather, in other words I was 18 and he was in his 70's, now I'm 47 years old.  I was referred to send the ball to AMA for Authentication and Grading.  It came back as Real and received a grade of 8.  I wasn't to good on sending my ball away.  Since then I have sent for letter of opinion to other sites.  I am told by everyone besides AMA it is real, except for PSA, they say it is not real but CAN'T tell me why!  Who am I to believe.

Thank you,

Vince

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Permalink Reply by Steven Jackson on December 1, 2014 at 10:26am

id say post it here. for opinions but in most cases psa is the more credible authenticator

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Permalink Reply by Steve Zarelli on December 1, 2014 at 10:57am

It should be judged on the signature, so please post it and you will get some credible opinions.

Just curious... who recommended you send it to AMA?

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Permalink Reply by Vincent Mirabal on December 1, 2014 at 6:42pm

A friend of mine, he told me that AMA is registered with the UACC which I noticed PSA/DNA is not.

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Permalink Reply by Steve Zarelli on December 1, 2014 at 6:50pm

I am on the UACC Board of Directors and I can assure you AMA is NOT endorsed by the UACC or a UACC Registered Dealer.

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Permalink Reply by Rock G III on December 2, 2014 at 5:54am

I would take PSA ove AMA 100% of the time. i assume the problem is the autograph being either fake or secretarial not the COA. Go ahead and post a picture. 

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