Roberto Clemente Signed Autographed Baseball Global Authentics

[thetruthisoutthere]

Aren't these the exact same baseballs? The first one is the Global Authentics certed Clemente and the second one is the one that Travis posted a link to that is certed by ACE (Justin Priddy).

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[travrosty]

yep, they are the same, it went through that auction with an ace cert, then got a GA cert and showed up on ebay. Look at the date on the certs. since GA is an ebay approved authenticator, the buyer must have took a chance at getting a GA cert after they bought it from that auction house so they could list it on ebay and got one from GA. They felt a GA cert was an upgrade from an ACE cert in the eyes of collectors.

[thetruthisoutthere]

Originally Posted by travrosty

yep, they are the same, it went through that auction with an ace cert, then got a GA cert and showed up on ebay. Look at the date on the certs. since GA is an ebay approved authenticator, the buyer must have took a chance at getting a GA cert so they could list it on ebay and got one.

Agreed.

[travrosty]

cert swapping. hope the guy didn't have a back story about uncle bob getting it signed in person, we know that is b.s. how did the ebay seller have all this information about the ball and it being correct if he just had it for a couple of months. when did the clemente museum opine on the ball?

Did this ebay seller really think he got a genuine clemente signed baseball for 350 bucks? c'mon.

[thetruthisoutthere]

I'd like to see that letter from the curator of the museum. I still have the seller's Ebay ID.

[travrosty]

yep, me too.

curators of museums are not autograph experts.

there would probably be no more impressive letter than from the curator of the baseball hall of fame in cooperstown accompanying an old hof autographed baseball, but the curator isn't an expert in those old signatures. he runs the museum.

I think they should have known better than to have a letter from the clemente museum have anything to do with their cert. they list the curators letter on the GA cert. that's inappropriate as it has nothing to do with the inspection that GA should have independently given the ball. Seems like he was trying to defend or bolster his decision by mentioning the museum.