What is your "prized possession"?

[DaneMcCloud]

Originally Posted by frazod

Dude, I've got two Marcus Allen autographs and I'm almost positive the one in the bottom center of the third picture is his. He has a very distinctive "M" that looks like a cross with a vertical slash through it.

I've got a Marcus Allen signed hat from 1993 in my garage somewhere. Is something like that worthy anything?

[Frazod]

Originally Posted by DaneMcCloud

I've got a Marcus Allen signed hat from 1993 in my garage somewhere. Is something like that worthy anything?

Probably not if you can't authenticate it. I also have a hat Marcus signed for me in person, but since nobody took a picture of him signing it, it's probably worthless. Which is ironic, since it's one of the few I actually got in person and know is 100% legit.

[ndws]

Originally Posted by frazod

Probably not if you can't authenticate it. I also have a hat Marcus signed for me in person, but since nobody took a picture of him signing it, it's probably worthless. Which is ironic, since it's one of the few I actually got in person and know is 100% legit.

James Spence or PSA/DNA will authenticate it (if its real) for a fee. And they are both pretty legit.

Maybe scratch the Spence recommendation. Seems like there are some questions surrounding them. PSA seems to still be good. Doubt any organization is going to be 100% though.

[Frazod]

Originally Posted by ndws

James Spence or PSA/DNA will authenticate it (if its real) for a fee. And they are both pretty legit.

Maybe scratch the Spence recommendation. Seems like there are some questions surrounding them. PSA seems to still be good. Doubt any organization is going to be 100% though.

Thanks, but I'd never sell it anyway (actually promised Marcus that when he signed it), and since I already know it's real, that doesn't matter.

I have three autographs that I got in person - Allen, Eddie Kennison and Ginger Lynn. I have one that is personalized and was directly got for me by one of my bosses (Montana). Of the rest, several are almost certainly legit, but some.... who knows? Considering the high number of frauds out there, I have to assume that even though all my stuff is "authenticated" in some way and I always scrutinize stuff before I buy it, some of it is bound to be fake.

[mr. tegu]

Originally Posted by frazod

Thanks, but I'd never sell it anyway (actually promised Marcus that when he signed it), and since I already know it's real, that doesn't matter.

I have three autographs that I got in person - Allen, Eddie Kennison and Ginger Lynn. I have one that is personalized and was directly got for me by one of my bosses (Montana). Of the rest, several are almost certainly legit, but some.... who knows? Considering the high number of frauds out there, I have to assume that even though all my stuff is "authenticated" in some way and I always scrutinize stuff before I buy it, some of it is bound to be fake.

When we drafted Tony Gonzalez, before he ever played a game, he was supposed to come to a Price Chopper near our house to sign autographs. I was 12 or so at the time. We waited in line for quite a while wondering what the hold up was because no one was there signing anything.

It turned out he wasn't able to make it because he got lost or something like that. Who knows why he didn't actually show. Obviously at the time it wasn't that big of a deal since it was just a rookie that had never even played a game yet, so I am sure no one really gave it a second thought.

Once they realized he wasn't going to make it they sent Donnie Edwards out to us instead. So instead of a Tony Gonzalez rookie autograph I got a Donnie Edwards autograph on a mini Chiefs helmet. Then shortly thereafter, a year or so I guess, we proceeded to really destroy what little value it had by having Elvis Grbac sign it. Oh what could have been.

[DaneMcCloud]

Originally Posted by frazod

Probably not if you can't authenticate it. I also have a hat Marcus signed for me in person, but since nobody took a picture of him signing it, it's probably worthless. Which is ironic, since it's one of the few I actually got in person and know is 100% legit.

Thanks for the info. In the garage it'll stay!

[rockymtnchief]

Originally Posted by frazod

Probably not if you can't authenticate it. I also have a hat Marcus signed for me in person, but since nobody took a picture of him signing it, it's probably worthless. Which is ironic, since it's one of the few I actually got in person and know is 100% legit.

I have the same dilema. I have some great signed baseballs from when I was a buyer for a athletic shoe store. Mantle, Mays, Williams, Snider...just to name a few. I probably have 20 HOF'ers signatures on baseballs, pictures and 3x5 cards, but none have COA's.