Simply Amazing - What Was This Guy Thinking?

[39special]

I don't understand why someone would ruin a letter like that.What a waste!

[travrosty]

just when i had thought i had seen it all, i see this.

when i saw muhammad ali's yellowed cut fingernail clippings (or was it toenail) being offered on ebay for a tidy sum, i had thought i had seen it all, but nope!

[thecatspajamas]

I just hope he puts a piece of scotch tape over the cut when he puts it in his album to protect it!

[Leon]

I have a few things with those kinds of stickers. There should be a law against them . And of course removing that signature should be illegal too !! That is crazy.

[jgmp123]

assume PSA certified before he cut out the signature...right???? surely they wouldn't certify a partial letter..right???

[Jay Wolt]

Originally Posted by jgmp123

assume PSA certified before he cut out the signature...right???? surely they wouldn't certify a partial letter..right???

James, they must have certified the letter in whole w/ the signature.
Since once the signature was missing, it was juts a typed letter and that's a service they don't provide.

[Runscott]

Originally Posted by Leon

I have a few things with those kinds of stickers. There should be a law against them . And of course removing that signature should be illegal too !! That is crazy.

+1

When I first read the ebay description, I thought maybe the seller was playing a bizarre joke on us. It's hard to believe that he couldn't anticipate how stupid other collectors would think his actions were.

[JimStinson]

As strange as strange goes for sure.

BUT I once sold Johnny Grabowski's LAST Yankee contract (1929) , Grabowski is one of the all time toughies from the 1927 team, He died in 1946. It was an historically significant contract and found out later the buyer was going to CUT the signature out for a display. (hope he's not reading this). I thought he was joking.....HE WAS NOT JOKING. Another collector came to the rescue and worked out a trade plus cash for his Grabowski cut in exchange for the intact 1929 Contract
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[Runscott]

Originally Posted by JimStinson

As strange as strange goes for sure.

BUT I once sold Johnny Grabowski's LAST Yankee contract (1929) , Grabowski is one of the all time toughies from the 1927 team, He died in 1946. It was an historically significant contract and found out later the buyer was going to CUT the signature out for a display. (hope he's not reading this). I thought he was joking.....HE WAS NOT JOKING. Another collector came to the rescue and worked out a trade plus cash for his Grabowski cut in exchange for the intact 1929 Contract
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Every time I see a cut of a famous person, I wonder what the surrounding document looked like. I have a Walter Johnson letter with a beautiful signature, and the accompanying envelope, also signed. It's tempting to sell the envelope, but it's the only way of dating the letter. Given all the cuts out there, I guess I'm lucky the envelope is still intact.

[JimStinson]

Coincidence you'd mention Walter Johnson, I just bought a collection and there was a matted Johnson signature in the group. I had my doubts , and was going to take a PASS on the W.J. , we took the piece apart and there intact was a Washington team page with multiple signatures ALL GOOD that proved the validity of the Walter Johnson. Luckily the original collector had left the page intact
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