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Originally Posted by Runscott
Richard, what I don't get is how badly collectors can "wish" a signature into being authentic. I once threw away a Mickey Mantle signed postcard because I didn't think it was authentic, and couldn't stand the thought of having a forgery in my home. It might have been real - not an obvious forgery - but this was long, long ago, when he was still alive, so the value wasn't huge. If I'm not 99.9% sure it's authentic, it can't stay in the house - no exceptions.
On the opposite end of the spectrum you have people paying amounts that I could almost retire on, to have a forged baseball sitting on their mantle. I'm sure that some of them are either a bit under 90% sure, or possible certain that it's fake - I just don't get it. And we could all cite examples of board members who are in this latter category - far too many who want something to be real so badly that they become incapable of telling the difference.
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I don't think anyone really could be 100 percent on a Brouthers auto that wasn't on a legal document. It seems to me that if a collector wants (and has the money for) a Dan Brouthers auto, they will never get one with perfect provenance.
It has long been said here that the only 100 percent certainty is seeing the person write their name. Outside of that perfection, you just seem to have slightly higher standards of certainty than others.