Hockey Auto’s - Any Good?
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I know there are a few hockey auto experts around these parts. Any care to weigh in on the group of HOF autos below?
Background - bought about 15 on card autos a number of years back. Seller had good feedback but not sure that means a whole lot. Considering getting these authed and am assuming they are either all good or all bad:
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They're all real.
But, probably not of the value where its worth authenticating them.
Thank you, and thats a good point. Unfortunate that the autos weren’t on better cards. Will throw them in a binder or cheap wall frames for the basement.
Agree on both of Mr. Hockey's statements.
They are all good. The Richard looks like it would have been signed late in his life as he actually had a beautiful signature. Good stuff!
Thanks again everyone. They looked good to me compared to other autos I have of the same players but nice to get validation.
Regarding the pocket rocket, all of his sigs I have are late life. Would love a nice clean early career sig.
From a distance, they all look like good autos. I'm assuming they really are, too.
I sincerely doubt that yours are from the same guy I've had a problem with, but your scans (player selection and card sets) reminded me though of a very large batch of bad hockey auto items that were sold on ebay between 2010-2012 by an ebay seller in Keswick, Ontario. He was printing what looked to be authentic autos directly onto cards somehow. You had to have a magnifying glass or loupe to be able to see the flow of the the auto was minutely pixelated rather than a smooth pen/marker flow. I unfortunately bought several but they did not pass the PSA test. Among fakes, they were the best I've seen, and he was doing it for players from '50's through modern eras, using cards typically from 1989-2005. In some cases, portions of the thin line of the auto would scratch/crumble/fall off leaving odd gaps. That old seller ID was shutdown many years ago (varietyseller_deals), but he might be still at it for all I know.
Interesting. I probably bought them 5-6 years ago. Could have been the same seller, he had a lot of these. And when I bought them, they seemed to cheap and I bought them high amount of skepticism. What never made sense to me was the cards he was getting signed, low grade vintage is pretty affordable, why pick these cards if you have good access to players?
To my eye they look good but will put them under a loupe.
All of these players were very willing signers through the mail for the last 25+ years. It was certainly not uncommon for me to receive requests back with 5+ items signed by each player. With these particular players, I would say that the signatures are authentic, more often than not.
Totally agree with you. However, I did accidentally get some fakes of Richard and Delvecchio among others, so I am wary now.
Thats a good point about the willingness of these guys to sign.