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Posted By: Rhys

Perhaps Joe was refering to the number of signatures, not specific items.

If PSA/DNA has authenticated say 20,000 team signed baseballs in all their years and each has 30+ signatures then that comes to 600,000 signatures, and when you start throwing around all the scraps of album paper with 5-10 autographs then it really starts to add up.

I talked to Steve Grad once about having my entire collection authenticated and they give you a great rate of like $15-$25 per item in a huge volume deal. At the time I had over 5,000 items, many of them multi signed so in one day they could come to my house and "authenticate" over 15,000 items, and I am just one guy. (I never really considered doing it but he brought it up so I listened). If you start to add up all the multi signed stuff they have done over the years then I think 8 million might not be that far of a stretch.

For the record, I do not like PSA/DNA and have only used them a handful of times, but if they meant "autographs" and not "items" then the 8,000,000 number might be accurate.

Rhys