I was thinking. and its baffling.

[GrayGhost]

Not my thinking itself being baffling, but the issue.

Now, we all know CC sells fake crap in the autograph world, and lots of it. We know Richard Simon, PSA, JSA and others are opinions that we strongly take as accurate. My question is, how do we REALLY Know anything is a real autograph of someone like Ruth, Foxx, Cobb, Gehrig, etc? I know authenticators use "known exemplars" of good signatures. Other than something being on a legal document, notarized and such (as the old autographs rarely are, how do we REALLY know? I know this is kind of a philsophical issue, but still, sometimes I think about it.

Is it all a matter of trust and good judgment?