PSA will authenticate anything

[glynparson]

It's not an autograph. Stick to ripping them on their atrocious job of boxing authentication, whereyou are right. as I think in this case your dead wrong on needing an exemplar to authenticate a ticket or card. You need knowledge of said item yes an exempkar in hand no.

[toybulldog]

Originally Posted by glynparson

It's not an autograph. Stick to ripping them on their atrocious job of boxing authentication, whereyou are right. as I think in this case your dead wrong on needing an exemplar to authenticate a ticket or card. You need knowledge of said item yes an exempkar in hand no.

I appreciate your comments and look forward to exposing other non-authentic PSA/DNA boxing autographs for you in the future.

Yours in signatures,
Mark O.

[sports-rings]

exact replicas of the tickets were printed as insert "extras" in an Elvis LP. These reprints are routinely sold on ebay as genuine to unsuspecting buyers. If memory serves, some of these have been slabbed.

Rick - thanks for an excellent post. I'm not surprised replicas were slabbed fake. Yet some on this post don't think PSA needs examplars to authenticate.

And while PSA does claim to offer opinions in their fine print, they market their services as authentication services, not opinion makers.

[Republicaninmass]

didnt they also slab Anna-Nicole Smiths Driver license?

[Jay Wolt]

Originally Posted by Republicaninmass

didnt they also slab Anna-Nicole Smiths Driver license?

I think that was GAI

[drc]

I can say that when PSA first said they'd be slabbing tickets, I thought 'Hmm, a ticket can't be too hard to fake." And with baseball cards, PSA does use have other examples as they've likely handled and closely examined hundreds of 1963 Topps Mickey Mantles or 1983 OPCs. And with a unique 1880s chromolithographic picture trade card or newly discovered Cap Anson CDV you have a chance to really assess the age of the printing. A ticket is often simple text on cardstock.

So I wasn't saying skepticism over how PSA authenticates ticks was unreasonable. I myself wonder what is their procedure. But I'm not a buyer or seller of tickets, so it doesn't keep me up at night.

[Deertick]

Originally Posted by republicaninmass

didnt they also slab anna-nicole smiths driver license?

How can they do that???? Did they have an exemplar????