Griffey Jr. Auto opinion

[T20Brew]

That's the good thing about this board, getting an education. My response was off the the Griffey autos I'm familiar with which are the ones I received in person in 1989. I wasn't comfortable with it but learned that his auto one year earlier may have some variations I wasn't familiar with.
Does anyone know the card it's signed on? That was actually part of my worry in that I thought it was a broder-type card from 1989 that was labeled as 1988. A lot of these came out around the late 80's - early 90's. I was concerned that someone told you it was obtained in 1988 when the card may not have been produced until 1989, thus creating a problem.
If I'm wrong, I'm ok with that. Just food for thought.

[vthobby]

1988 Rookies II
Several unlicensed Rookies sets were put out in 1988.

This 21 card baseball set does not have a border, has square corners, and includes the player name, team and year on the front. The back of the card has a cartoon along with the set name, year, series, and card number.

Mike

[nicker10]

Thanks for all of the help in this thread. I did end up purchasing the card. I have been wanting to start collecting early career signatures of players just for something different to collect.

[vthobby]

I originally thought it looked like a Mothers Cookie Card but after someone asked in this thread, I actually looked the card in question up and found the info. I'm not sure a third party grading company will actually slab the card since it is not officially licensed but you may be able to just get a cert without slabbing the card.

It looks like you got a pretty fair deal on it either way.

Mike

[MacDice]

Signature is real. Personally I would pass on it since I don't consider it to be a real card. Feel that way about all the borders