Authentication Lie Pictures

[WMMRMATT]

Last week I posted about purchasing a 500 homerun club signed baseball from a local Sports Card Store. The ball was authenticated by STAT Authentic, which I never heard of so like any smart investor, I had the ball examined by James Specer. Spencer ruled the ball was a fake. Below are pictures of the ball.

What are your opinions? Real or fake? Help !!!

[Vintagedeputy]

If my memory is correct STAT was (is) a company that authenticated sigs at the actual signing. Sigs look legit in my opinion, and I've seen alot of those sigs over the years, but dont take my word for it.

Jim

[byergo]

Do you mean James Spence? And if the signs aren't real, they are a darn good fake.

[CollectGU]

These balls are evrywhere on ebay and in in my opinion the signatures are bad fakes especially the Killebrew and Mantle.

Regards,
Dave

[JasonHalliburton]

Those signatures look like they may have been done by the Marino guy that was caught forging so much. There was a video on here that had a little bit about him on it.

That is if these signatures are fake...They look pretty good to me though. The only one that I see that might be bad is the Frank Robinson....

[JasonHalliburton]

The more I look at the photo's, the more I think they are all bad.

[both-teams-played-hard]

Those signatures look like they may have been done by the Marino guy that was caught forging so much.

My thoughts, also.

[sammy]

The Ted Williams is the only one that has the appearance of being real, and thus could go either way.

The rest are forgeries.

That is not a legitimate 500 HR club ball. It might have started out as a single signed Ted Williams and someone added the rest.

Sorry.

[David]

Most anyone in the hobby is going to take Spence's opinion over Stat's.

[Swoboda4]

Harmon Killebrew would never sign his name like that.