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<p>[QUOTE="CamaroDMD, post: 7688363, member: 5233"]Not if you look at the sports memorabilia industry and understand how things are done now. The major distributors of this stuff tend to have things signed that can later be applied to products. Most sports cards that come signed now aren’t signed on the card itself. Rather, the brand has the athlete sign sheets of stickers that can then be applied to cards at a later date.</p><p><br /></p><p>The same is true here. The athlete signed the back of the PCGS insert probably several years ago. My guess is he was contracted to signed a whole pile of sheets. He signed them on the back while the front was blank. As PCGS needed them, they printed the front side and put them in slabs.</p><p><br /></p><p>He died before they were all used up…but that doesn’t mean the autograph is no good. For all we know, they may still have 1000 signed and unused blank labels in their inventory.</p><p><br /></p><p>Now, obviously for a player like Babe Ruth (who died in 1948 long before such things were done) this is impossible. But some sports memorabilia organizations actually take old signed items from long dead players (say a photo or a check)…cut the autographed piece off and insert it into a piece of modern memorabilia. It looks trashy in my opinion, but it is done.</p><p><br /></p><p>That’s just the market for sports memorabilia.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>
[QUOTE="CamaroDMD, post: 7688363, member: 5233"]Not if you look at the sports memorabilia industry and understand how things are done now. The major distributors of this stuff tend to have things signed that can later be applied to products. Most sports cards that come signed now aren’t signed on the card itself. Rather, the brand has the athlete sign sheets of stickers that can then be applied to cards at a later date. The same is true here. The athlete signed the back of the PCGS insert probably several years ago. My guess is he was contracted to signed a whole pile of sheets. He signed them on the back while the front was blank. As PCGS needed them, they printed the front side and put them in slabs. He died before they were all used up…but that doesn’t mean the autograph is no good. For all we know, they may still have 1000 signed and unused blank labels in their inventory. Now, obviously for a player like Babe Ruth (who died in 1948 long before such things were done) this is impossible. But some sports memorabilia organizations actually take old signed items from long dead players (say a photo or a check)…cut the autographed piece off and insert it into a piece of modern memorabilia. It looks trashy in my opinion, but it is done. That’s just the market for sports memorabilia.[/QUOTE]
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