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Permalink Reply by Ian Baldock on June 10, 2013 at 4:32pm

His ronaldo,kaka autos are a bit different than my icons autos ( I have 4 ronaldo,one kaka). Only an observation,if your reading,dont get all bent out of shape.

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Permalink Reply by Mike P on June 10, 2013 at 5:24pm

I agree on the Ronaldos.  I have a signed boot from Icons, and the jersey that he has for sale is a bit different (especially at the end of the signature) but I guess you could make the case that the ones from Icons are in a calmer/sit-down environment.  

He does have the photo proof with a bunch of pieces, but you can't always rely on that given photoshopping etc.  Not saying he is doing that, but you never know nowadays.

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Permalink Reply by Ian Baldock on June 11, 2013 at 2:31pm

I suspect mixed bag (some good,some bad) with sites that have tons of autos. Of course I cant prove anything and dont want them getting on and blasting me.

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Permalink Reply by Scott on June 15, 2013 at 3:43am

This is one of the few 100% authentic sites where everything is authentic and in person, they  would rather get 100 items with all exact photo proof rather than 200 items with a few photo proof, with other dealers they have a great reputation, having met the owner Peter  on a few occasions he prefers to travel abroad to areas where there isn't the massive amount of ebayers trying to get 20 10x8 photos by each person.

Scott

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Permalink Reply by Peter Johnson on June 15, 2013 at 2:30pm

Hi, l'm Peter - Director of Firma Stella Sports Memorabilia. Firstly, thanks for taking a interest in our website, it's great to hear from you. 

l personally travel round the world to access the players in the most exclusive ways to obtain exact photo proof. Our whole philosophy is to obtain Photograph Proof with the majority of our items, please view our authenticity page on our website. We would much rather get 2 shirts signed with proof than 4 without. With the growing amounts of fakes on the market, we see exact Photograph Proof as the only way to prove authenticity. We have even gone to Hold Up Proof as a way of showing authenticity, where the selected player is in the photo with there signed shirt, as you will see with the Kaka signed shirt, there is a Photo of him holding it up with myself, you can see the exact same signature as the one being sold in the photo. 

In regards to the Ronaldo autographs, the ones you purchased on Icons are obviously private. Ronaldo is being paid to sign therefore it is done in a relaxed manner, he's sat down and has plenty of time which is why the signature is so neat and full. Ronaldo signed our stuff at different times and in person, where we approached him to sign as is all of our items. Therefore the signature would be slightly different as he has less time, is standing up and has other signatures to sign for other people. We did in fact get some good proof of Ronaldo signing our shirts, which was quite a achievement in itself. As you can imagine there was many people surrounding Cristiano so to get the proof photo was much harder. We do in fact have some full Ronaldo autographs and some short ones, he has two different signatures, one when he's more rushed and one when he's relaxed. Ronaldo signed for us at a Manchester hotel prior to the champions league match against United and in Dortmund prior to the semi final tie against Borussia. 

Icons is totally different to us as mentioned, they are private signers, we are in person signers. If you see, Icons use the same Photograph Proof image for each shirt and they get hundreds signed. We use a different proof image for each shirt, which is the exact one the player is signing. The reason we have so many Photograph Proof images for every item is that we employ somebody specifically to take a Photograph at the time of signing. I would like to point out, we are one of the only 100% genuine Signed Sports Memorabilia companies on the internet, l can make that statement because l have the evidence of all the photograph proof and hold up proof of the items being signed. We have so many great items with exact photo proof because we travel abroad to get into situations where we are the only people getting the signatures. 

If you have any other enquiries, please do not hesitate to contact me through the website or on enquiries@firmastella.com

Thank you,

Peter.

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