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Permalink Reply by CJCollector on January 2, 2014 at 12:01pm

Here's a previous thread of mine where I show examples of the different Derek Jeter minor league cards that were all penned by the same forger as the ones sold by Ebay seller Clubcards.

http://live.autographmagazine.com/forum/topics/derek-jeter-autograp...

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Permalink Reply by Null on January 2, 2014 at 12:14pm

Christopher what do AUTHENTIC older Derek Jeter signed cards typically go for? I would like to add one to my collection soon. 

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Permalink Reply by CJCollector on January 2, 2014 at 12:22pm

All depends, Ryan.  Sometimes you can get a great deal if you get lucky.

Unfortunately, some people are paying between $60.00 and $150.00 for those GAI Slabbed Forgeries shown above.

Authentic ones to look for are his 1993 Classic, 1992 4-Sport, 1995 Action Packed and 1992 Little Sun.

Those GAI Slabbed Forgeries are all poor attempts at Jeter's 1994 Signature Rookies autograph. 

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Permalink Reply by CJCollector on January 2, 2014 at 1:17pm

Below is a side-by-side view of a fake and an authentic 1994 Jeter Signature Rookies autograph card.

The one on the left is the horrible forgery and the one on the right is authentic.

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Permalink Reply by Null on January 2, 2014 at 1:30pm

Yeah I really like his old signature alot, it's actually cool to see the evolution of the "humps" which are actually K, J, T. 

I am going to be on the lookout for an old Jeter sig. Doesn't even have to be on a rookie card. I had to sell my only Jeter a few months back and I miss it damnit. LOL. 

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Permalink Reply by terrier8HOF on January 2, 2014 at 1:45pm

Thanks for posting this Christopher

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Permalink Reply by CJCollector on January 2, 2014 at 2:38pm

You're welcome.

The person who penned these GAI Slabbed forgeries, also penned hundreds of forgeries of Walter Payton, Brett Favre and others.

There are thousands of these GAI Slabbed forgeries out there.

Disgusting.

And the sellers who sell this garbage, must take full responsibility for listing and selling these forgeries.

Every Ebay auction reads "Seller Assumes All Responsibility For This Listing."

If a seller doesn't know that these obvious forgeries are forgeries, then they shouldn't be selling autographs.

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Permalink Reply by Randy on January 2, 2014 at 4:07pm

As long as they sell autographed items authenticated by one of Ebay's approved companies(which unfortunately GAI still is) they will never get in trouble with Ebay.

I have also seen some terrible looking Jeter autographs with Steiner LOAs and they will never be questioned by Ebay either.

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Permalink Reply by CJCollector on January 2, 2014 at 4:16pm

It's unfortunate because for awhile there Ebay was removing these Jeter GAI Slabbed forgeries.

And those are ugly forgeries.  I first spotted them a few years ago on Ebay. 

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Permalink Reply by terrier8HOF on January 2, 2014 at 5:43pm

I agree. but many of them adopt the "I didn't know it was fake" defense.  As if that absolves them from responsibility.  It doesn't.

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