Griffey Jr. 1994 Pepsi Gu Auto Uniform?

[Lokee]

I have a chance to buy this item. I have done some research and can come up with no photos or anything showing Griffey wearing this jersey. I am also not familiar with the Unique Sports Inc COA.

Any thoughts ?

[mariner_gamers]

Re: Help With Griffey Jersey

Unique is Griffey's old game used cert. He sold Unique items through Coast to Coast in Bellevue Wash and Mill Creek Sportscards. The sigs look good right at the end of the underline era. Since Google has become almost worthless I cannot find any pics either. I will flip through my personal stuff and see if I can come up with anything. I know he won the HR derby that year but I can't find any pics.

[Lokee]

Re: Help With Griffey Jersey

Thanks would appreciate it.

[primeradriver]

Re: Help With Griffey Jersey

I second mariner gamers. Sig looks good in regards to the underline 'y' version. Unique/Coast to Coast/MCS COA's are good as well.

[mariner_gamers]

Re: Help With Griffey Jersey

I'm sorry I can't help with this any further. I went through my pics and was unable to find anything. He played in all kinds of charity softball events for Pepsi, MTV etc. As to where it was worn exactly I would just be guessing at this point.

[Lokee]

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Thanks you for all your help and appreciate you taking the time.

[kylehess10]

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My Ken Griffey Jr. '94 All Star Game helmet comes with the same signed LOA from the same company. I also have an original advertisement from when they were selling Griffey's equipment. It doesn't have this jersey on the advertisement, but Griffey sure did sell off some pretty cool stuff back in the day.

[legaleagle92481]

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Be very careful. Fake Griffey stuff is all over. A COA is worthless if the item and COA do not have matching holograms affixed to them. Anyone put a legit COA with a bad item.

[CollectGU]

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Actually if you decide to take the original COA from a legitmate item (as above) and match it up with a fake item in order to sell the fake as real, haven't you just greatly devalued the real item, since it it no longer has the original COA? I can't really see someone doing that....Now photocpying an original and chaning it or manipulating it that i can see.....

Dave

[trsent]

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Be very careful. Fake Griffey stuff is all over. A COA is worthless if the item and COA do not have matching holograms affixed to them. Anyone put a legit COA with a bad item.

I don't understand this comment. Griffey worked with Mill Creek and Coast to Coast when he was with Seattle. This COA helps determine an era for this item and people feel the signature looks good.

A COA doesn't have to have matching holograms to make it useful. People use garbage holograms with COA's all the time.

This item may be hard for anyone to identify, but the COA helps a lot since everyone who knows anything about Griffey, Jr. from his Mariners days know that Mill Creek and Coast to Coast were close with The Kid. They list an event on the COA, and unless anyone can prove the COA is fake, I'd use the COA for reference for where this came from as it must have been a special NBA television promotional game, maybe softball?

I would like to think if anyone was going to discourage the COA with this item they would have proof to back it up and not just make blanket statements that do not help the cause.

[al3xmac10]

Griffey Jr. 1994 Pepsi Gu Auto Uniform?

Any opinions on this piece?
Does anyone have pics of Griffey wearing this uniform?

http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&item=150633875219

[Lokee]

Re: Griffey Jr. 1994 Pepsi Gu Auto Uniform?

this was discussed about a year ago now. I had a chance to buy it locally for around 500.00 but I passed.

http://www.gameuseduniverse.com/vb_forum/showthread.php?t=38509&highlight=Griffey+pepsi

[Lokee]

Re: Griffey Jr. 1994 Pepsi Gu Auto Uniform?

I did spend a lot of time doing research on it as well.

[al3xmac10]

Re: Griffey Jr. 1994 Pepsi Gu Auto Uniform?

May I know why you passed on it?

[Lokee]

Re: Griffey Jr. 1994 Pepsi Gu Auto Uniform?

I was not comfortable not knowing 100% when and where if at all it was worn.

In all my leg work the only plausible game it could have been worn in was a celeb softball game. That really does not fit my collecting genre.