Is your memorabilia real???

[tjm5711]

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.

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.

[LastingsMilledge85]

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.