Any Idea of Why This Went So Cheaply?

[slidekellyslide]

Is $1500 + juice for a cabinet of a guy who may or may not be Radbourn cheap?

[barrysloate]

I wasn't convinced it was Hoss Radbourne. Maybe Mark F. can comment further.

[Leon]

It might have been him, I am not a photo expert by any stretch, but it looks like another guy in a suit to me . Even if it is him!!

[bmarlowe1]

I doubt that it's him. I would need a higher res scan of the photo in question to prove it. If anyone has one - please post. Maybe the folks at Huggins and Scott will help us out.

[oldjudge]

Am I imagining it or are the noses entirely different?

[Matt]

Originally Posted by bmarlowe1

The other question is why did SGC authenticate it?

Mark - as you know, I recently submitted a team RPPC to SGC for slabbing with a notation of who was in it. Even knowing the player played for the team in the photo in the year of the photo and looked like the player in the photo and you confirmed the ID, they were very reluctant to slab it as such, until I provided them with further evidence. Unless I'm missing something, this seems to simply be a cabinet of a guy, with no reason to assume he's a baseball player; if they had the policies in place they were using for my submission when this one was submitted, I don't see any way this gets slabbed like that.

[bmarlowe1]

OK - I figured out how to see the H&G photo in Hi-res.

The left ears are similar (more so than I expected) - but they are different - it's not that hard to see. There are other differences (like the nose as pointed out above). The cabinet is not Radbourne.

And yes - why did SGC authenticate this?

[bmarlowe1]

THis reminds me of the phony Barnes:

[oldjudge]

Thanks Mark

[barrysloate]

Matt- I'm with you 100% on this one. Given how careful SGC usually is, often to the extreme, it seems to me they authenticated this with insufficient documentation. And like you said, you were able to offer far more proof and had trouble getting yours slabbed. Wish there was more consistency.

[sportscardtheory]

Originally Posted by bmarlowe1

OK - I figured out how to see the H&G photo in Hi-res.

The left ears are similar (more so than I expected) - but they are different - it's not that hard to see. There are other differences (like the nose as pointed out above). The cabinet is not Radbourne.

And yes - why did SGC authenticate this?

That's the same person.

[bmarlowe1]

Sportscardtheory -

Now that SGC is going to "unauthenticate" the identification - what's your theory?