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The Autograph Authentication Report

I am sorry I have been out of commission for the past 2 weeks with a family emergency. We have also been very busy and just opened our 2nd location in South Florida.
The authentication issue continues to a major problem in South Florida. We have been working with many of the local auction companies and the local flea markets on educating them and supplying them with some knowledge on the autograph market and detecting the mass amounts of forgeries being produced and sold in South Florida.
It has become almost a daily event, with someone coming in with a 500 Home Run signed poster or a Mickey Mantle, Joe DiMaggio, Ted Williams, Willie Mays, Muhammad Ali item purchased at local nightly auctions or Flea markets. A great majority of these items are well framed & matted with name plates or the players names cut out in the matting. Most of these items recently have been coming with worthless Certificates of Authenticity or phoney Score Board certificates even going as far as making up phoney Score Board holograms. These beautiful framed items have been selling locally for anywhere from $20-$150. The signatures are all non authentic, the customers are basically purchasing a frame. :(
       In the past few months we have also been seeing a great increase of signed baseballs coming from the same sources, they are almost always on the inexpensive white China baseballs. The signatures include Sandy Koufax, Hank Aaron, Don Mattingly, Willie Mays, Nolan Ryan, Pete Rose, Steve Carlton, Cal Ripkin Jr., Frank Robinson, Mike Schmidt, Reggie Jackson which I have shown in the past on AML. Many of these baseball also come with COA's for reputable 3rd party authentication companies.
I have just recently starting detracting a new name being produced and that would be STAN MUSIAL. I will post a few examples and will have some more information on this matter shortly.
Thank you for your time and I can be reached privately at specialagent711@aol.com
Michael Frost P.A.A.S.
 

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Permalink Reply by Null on March 28, 2013 at 11:20am

Yuck. I have noticed several Mattingly forgeries of late.

Permalink Reply by Michael Frost on March 28, 2013 at 11:37am

I would not say Yuck, they are pretty good forgeries. As I have mentioned many have been certified by a well known and respected authentication company.

 

 

Permalink Reply by Null on March 28, 2013 at 11:42am

The Whitey/Mattingly are the same forgery style I see on photos "certified" by YMC Sports/Myst-o-Graph/Autographed Legends, LLC./Fake Scoreboard/etc. "Florida" forgeries. Same hand is doing these. Mattingly/Whitey are easy to spot. Interesting to see Griffey/Koufax though... I hope Operation Bullpen Part II happens soon, I'm sick of this Florida crap. 

Permalink Reply by GraphingMlb on March 28, 2013 at 12:49pm

Griffey hasnt signed in that style in ages its soooo bad, Whitey Fords sig has gotten a bit shakey also...Not even close on The way Mattingly signs today you can tell the same hand signs with other examples Ryan Gray posts up...This whole post makes me sick to my stomach just because its all so bad.

Permalink Reply by terrier8HOF on March 28, 2013 at 1:00pm

serious collectors would be turned off by the cheap baseballs they use

Permalink Reply by GraphingMlb on March 28, 2013 at 1:06pm

Those cheap ROLB balls are leather though sometimes if things are tight and i cant purchase an MLB ball and granted I am not a seller.Ive used them to get signatures on they generally turn out ok but your right anyone in their right mind would pass on a Koufax on a cheap ball!!!

Permalink Reply by Michael Frost on March 28, 2013 at 1:26pm

Ryan,

It is interesting that you use the word "hand".  Do you believe that even Mike Schmidt would be able to reproduce his signature 4 times in a row like this?

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Permalink Reply by Null on March 28, 2013 at 1:33pm

Some of the "Florida" Mantles/DiMaggios have had some tell-tale signs of being mechanically produced somehow. The Griffey/Mattinglys above are not identical though... 

Permalink Reply by CJCollector on March 28, 2013 at 3:00pm

We all know who the crap comes from.

The frame was a helluva ruse to camouflage the obvious.

AtAuction  (formerly AlwaysAtAuction) continues to sell the same crap.

http://atauction.com/iSynApp/auctionDisplay.action?sid=193&auct...

 

http://atauction.com/iSynApp/auctionDisplay.action?sid=193&auct...

 

http://atauction.com/iSynApp/auctionDisplay.action?sid=193&auct...

Permalink Reply by Michael Frost on March 28, 2013 at 4:51pm

With COA from ????

 

Stephen Rocchi

A leading expert on third party authentication, Stephen was responsible for setting up the policies, grading, and authentication procedures of the Professional Coin Grading Service (PCGS). In the 1990’s, he was President of Professional Sports Authenticators (PSA) and helped to create PSA/DNA the nation’s first third-party autograph authentication company.

In 2002, Stephen was the founder of Global Authentication Company and has since been featured on Good Morning America, ESPN, and the Sporting News Radio Network.

Stephen came out of retirement in 2011 to form Guaranteed Forensic Authenticators (GFA).

Email: stephen@gfaauthenticated.com

Permalink Reply by CJCollector on March 28, 2013 at 4:54pm

Freakin' bad joke!!!!

Rocchi took over where Chris Morales, Ted Taylor and Drew Max left off......

Permalink Reply by Michael Frost on March 28, 2013 at 5:02pm

I did not know Rocchi was back in the autograph business. How long has this been going on and have you ever seen these GFA certs before?? Has anyone spoken to Rocchi about any of this?

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