Type II photos?

[Forever Young]

Originally Posted by drc

Sorry, I don't read all posts, I'm not avoiding answering questions.

I don't authenticate at Beckett and never did. I was an advisor before, which meant I answered their pressing question and gave opinions on the occasional hard photo they emailed me. Last I knew Andy Broome was the head photograph guy. He also is their Pre-War baseball card specialist. All questions sent to me came through Mark Anderson who is the director of grading. Mark himself seems to be knowledgeable about photos, and I would guess he is in on the photo grading.

I originally went down to Dallas and gave a seminar or identifying photographs to the graders. They also had me write a series of photo articles for one of the magazines. Then retained me for a while to answer questions long distance.

But, no, I've never physically handled a photograph for Beckett.

David, thank you for your response. I am actually quite relieved that you are not the authenticator as their classifications are inconsistent at best. Many of the authenticated examples are so horrendously inaccurate that it appears it is done intentionally. I find it interesting that they have adopted YEE/FOGEL'S Classification system yet do not follow it.