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Permalink Reply by Mike Kaminski on May 1, 2015 at 8:32pm

Not in regards to vintage baseball

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Permalink Reply by terrier8HOF on May 2, 2015 at 7:31am

they are pretty reliable with regards to 500 HR items.

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Permalink Reply by Mike T on May 2, 2015 at 8:24am

Are you talking about assigning grades or authenticating signatures?

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Permalink Reply by terrier8HOF on May 2, 2015 at 8:27am

I think we need a better definition of what is meant by "questionable activity".

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Permalink Reply by CJCollector on May 2, 2015 at 8:52am

Robert, before you post a thread like this one, you should have posted photos with it.

It's not fair to JSA to post a title like that without photos.

By the way, what you you "Worried about?'

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Permalink Reply by Robert Sarro on May 2, 2015 at 9:50am

My bad. I should have took more time to explain. Since joining this sight I have pretty much came to the conclusion that PSA or JSA are the only authenticater's I really want to buy from. I know their are a couple other good ones but I find it best for myself to stick to those two. I chose my words wrong with "questionable activity". I should have just asked in the form of a question. On Ebay over the last 6 month's I have seen about 20, maybe more 500 home run balls graded by JSA that were graded late 2014 to early 2015 and in that same time frame have seen maybe 2 or 3 graded by PSA. Maybe that is a normal thing but I should have asked if that is a normal thing before I posted anything. Sorry about that!

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Permalink Reply by Mike T on May 2, 2015 at 10:07am

I don't see how the authenticator of choice of certain ebay sellers has anything to do with questionable activity. Perhaps PSA graded 10 times that amount in that timeframe and the owners simply haven't sold them on eBay, it's impossible to know.

Are you saying you believe the JSA ones to be fake? Can you post examples?

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Permalink Reply by Robert Sarro on May 2, 2015 at 10:20am

I have never used the word fake. All's I was asking is if it was normal for a company to grade 20 to 25 500 home run club balls in a 6 month period. Maybe that is perfectly normal, Maybe they grade 200 of them a year. I didn't know, that's why I was asking. I didn't realize their were so many of those 500 balls out there. Please don't put words in my mouth. I never accused JSA of doing anything wrong and I apologized how I worded the first question.

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Permalink Reply by Mike T on May 2, 2015 at 10:26am

In your original post you said you would post examples, the only reason (that I can think of) to do that would be because you thought they were fake. If you just wanted to ask a simple question of "is it reasonable for JSA to authenticate twenty 500 hr club balls in a 6 month period" why didn't you just say that? You've made your intentions very confusing.

And no, I don't think it's unreasonable for a 6 month timeframe.

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Permalink Reply by Steve Zarelli on May 2, 2015 at 10:27am

I would imagine the major TPAs review dozens of 500 HR balls a year. They are not uncommon in the least. Considering these guys were all show signers, thousands exist. That said, the fakes probably still outnumber the authentic.

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Permalink Reply by CJCollector on May 2, 2015 at 10:36am

The majority of forgeries examined by the TPA's can be opined in seconds.

Someone once made a big issue about the number of autographs examined by the TPA's in a one year period.

The truth is the majority of forgeries can be opined in seconds.

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Permalink Reply by Steve Zarelli on May 2, 2015 at 10:40am

Right. You really don't need to study an obvious, mass produced fake for any length of time. If many of the experienced members of this forum can identify a Florida or Marino fake in 2 seconds, the TPAs can too.

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