How much do you trust a team COA. And how important are tagging and signs of wear.
I know of teams selling jerseys with a letterhead certificate of authencity. But collector friends say they avoid the jerseys because they have commercial number tags and show no wear.
The theory is that teams prepare jerseys for use by a player ("Team issued") but the player has not necessarily worn the jersey in a game. In fact, lack of wear would indicate that they might not have worn it at all; somehow the jersey made it from the stitching room to the locker room.
How comfortable are you with a team-issued COA? Or uncomfortable with retail tags?
Or is all this analogus to accepting the transplanted heart of a pig? ("It works for me!")
I know of teams selling jerseys with a letterhead certificate of authencity. But collector friends say they avoid the jerseys because they have commercial number tags and show no wear.
The theory is that teams prepare jerseys for use by a player ("Team issued") but the player has not necessarily worn the jersey in a game. In fact, lack of wear would indicate that they might not have worn it at all; somehow the jersey made it from the stitching room to the locker room.
How comfortable are you with a team-issued COA? Or uncomfortable with retail tags?
Or is all this analogus to accepting the transplanted heart of a pig? ("It works for me!")
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