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Thread: Is your memorabilia real???
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01-04-2010, 03:49 PM #11
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Re: Is your memorabilia real???
Upper Deck Authenticated received a lot of their vintage autographs from Kevin Keating, who owns the company Quality Autographs & Memorabilia and is one of PSA/DNA's autograph "experts".
Once that card came out, UDA started using JSA for reviews.
Don't know if that is any better, but time will tell.
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01-04-2010, 04:18 PM #12
Re: Is your memorabilia real???
Jimmy Spence is bad as well. There was a story about them on My Fox Chicago a few years back, but the link no longer works. If I remember correctly, the reporter forged the autograph of Sal Bando, who was signing at a show, and JSA's on-site authentication people certified it as real.
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01-04-2010, 05:03 PM #13
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Re: Is your memorabilia real???
.....also don't forget when another reporter forged a Mike Schmidt autograph on a baseball and Spence just fawned over how authentic it was because of blah, blah, blah.
Then the reporter told him their graphics artist forged the ball. Spence sure looked taken then and mumbled his way to the end of the interview.
I still have that one on tape.
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01-04-2010, 05:08 PM #14
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But who is to say what I have in my collection or your collection is real or not? I think in this hobby for a good part of it you have to play the guessing game. I have undocumented and some documented items that I am uncertain about, but I took a chance because I trust my source and my "detective" skills.
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01-04-2010, 05:57 PM #15
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Re: Is your memorabilia real???
Radke is very legit. They host signings of big name athletes. I got my "Monsters of the Midway" Proline Helmet from them signed by Brian Urlacher,Dick Butkus,and Mike Singletary.
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01-04-2010, 06:01 PM #16
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as far as i know, radtke is legit. I think they are based in georgia and have delt quite a bit with the braves. i know theyve done signings with some players and i believe theyve handled a few gamers as well.
I think radtke posts on this forum so i would love for them to chime in and correct me if i am wrong.Always buying David Justice items
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01-04-2010, 06:04 PM #17
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01-04-2010, 06:13 PM #18
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Re: Is your memorabilia real???
You know, that's just it ! The level of confidence in the authenticity factors highly into the value I assess to an autographed or game used item. My confidence is raised higher by the reputation/methodology of the company that
authenticated the item. Of course what you pay also factors in to the assessment. But the two usually go hand in hand. Just look at the prices from guys like Steiner and Upper Deck. You're basically paying for that higher level of confidence that the jersey hanging on your wall is the real deal.
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01-04-2010, 06:30 PM #19
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Unless you get the athlete to talk to you about an item you have of theirs whether it was used or an autograph you can only assume that it is legit. The funny thing is that all my Lastings Milledge signatures are the same except for one in which he signed a personal letter to me, and the items I have with all the same signature came from various dependable sources like Steiner. Always found that kind of funny.
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01-04-2010, 07:20 PM #20
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Keep in mind that there are 2 major operating divisions at Upper Deck. There is the trading card division and UDA (Upper Deck Authenticated).
We have all heard the horror stories of vintage autograph cards and the infamous game used piece cards.
Then you have the UDA division that handles their own memorabilia from Michael Jordan, Tiger Woods, LeBron James, and others. This is as close as you can get to being 100% certain!