James Spence
Thought you guys might like to read this.:mad::mad::mad::mad::mad:
http://haulsofshame.com/blog/?p=41262 |
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never mind. Talking about this is a waste of time.
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What responsibility do auction houses have to not accept these as consignments?
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To answer your question - my opinion is that no auction house in their right mind would base consignment decisions on Peter Nash's web-site. |
It has absolutely nothing to do with Peter Nash's website.
We've known for years that those Mathewson bookplates are secretarial. And Spence knows it, too: "1910 book plates adhered to the inside front covers of Won in the Ninth have recently come under scrutiny for their controversial legitimacy. These number(ed) (appr. 500) presentational copies have a type written name added with a large and spurious secretarial black fountain pen manuscript. Observe the low initial stroke of the “M” and the oversized lower case letters and the unusual “t-h” combination that is heavily retraced. Overall, this vintage ghost signed anomaly is far more pointed than his other versions….” |
I don't believe those signatures are secretarial. The experts could be wrong.
Mathewson's usual signature length is very small. If you look at all of his signed album pages and other items, the signature remains under 3" in length. Most signed checks have signatures measuring < 2.75". Mathewson had tiny handwriting. The bookplate pasted on the front board of Won In The 9th measures around 5 inches, with the blank space for the signature nearly the entire 5 inches across. If Mathewson decided to enlarge his signature for whatever reason, maybe to make it more bold, or to take up all of the 5 inches, his handwriting traits could have changed. Doubling the size of his signature may have caused this change, which manifest as some atypical traits. Could be the result of exaggerating the size of his normal handwriting. Besides, why would he hire a secretary to sign the 500 bookplates? Was he so busy? That's kind of weird. Did ballplayers back in 1910 usually have secretaries? |
Ten bucks says the majority of comments at the end of Nash’s articles are written by Nash himself.
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In the end, I did not feel comfortable buying a book or a baseball. And curiously, I also did not feel comfortable buying a check. Here's why: go look at the third bookplate example Nash provides. Then go look at a few Matthewson signed checks. What I 'found' was that at least two different people signed the books. Was one of them Matthewson? I don't know, but if all the bookplates were secretarial-signed, there were two secretaries and one of them also signed some of Matthewson's checks. That's my conclusion. If I'm wrong, sobeit, but my research left me uncomfortable forking over $5k+ for a Matty autograph. |
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I want to add that I would never fault anyone for their analysis of Matty's autograph. It's not an easy one to understand - Ruth, Cobb, Wagner, Williams, Mantle are much easier to figure out. If someone has a secret 'key' to Matty autographs, please send it to me and I will trade whatever information on autographs I might have (it's not much). |
Just skimmed the article and saw this comment:
LOL anyone who collects rare “autographs” that are not from an original check is a moron. Like that Mufsud character and his phony “signed” T206s. Comment by Mastro Monkey — October 4, 2018 @ 10:14 am Whoa! Anonymous shot across the bow! That's not very nice!! :confused: |
So, who can you trust?
Sorry if this is egregiously naive, but, if all of these TPAs are sniping and disproving each other, who can you trust?
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Nash is (himself) most of the people posting on his site, if not all of them, is my guess. He posts all of that crap with different names but it is him posting. I think he likes to think he is something when he is less than nothing. Anyone who reads his site, thinking they are reading the truth, is a fool.
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If you have $5k or $10k to waste on an autograph, glad you got burned!
TPG mean nothing. Do your own research!!!! - Mark |
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I agree with you one hundred percent that he is a bad guy. I am just saying that he has done research that has proven many items that sold for a lot of money have been fakes. |
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The dude took "loans" from John Rogers. What were they for? Rogers was a cocaine-fueled forger and scam artist and yet you won't find the expose' on HOS. Why is that?
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But can you tell me one thing that is wrong with that story. :confused: |
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But can you tell me one thing that is wrong with that story. :confused: |
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Dan is there anything that he wrote about Matty that was untrue? |
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Nash calling out fakes reminds me of a certain politician claiming that all the news is fake. Because he's a fake, he'd like people to believe everything's a fake, then no one is pointing the finger at him. Nash would love nothing more than to take down the TPAs, they're the bain of a fraudster's existence. Do they make mistakes? Duh. Is the hobby better off with them than without them? Duh. Because of what he's done, no one should have anything to do with this guy. Answer this question: what do you think his motivation is for doing HOS? |
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Please don't take this thread in a political direction.
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It's not rocket science. |
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I believe that Peter Nash and Jose Canseco are the same person.
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Hank, go get a glass of water and take one of the pills on your nightstand. You'll feel calmer tomorrow and make more sense. Not a high bar, but it's something.
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