Question about buying autographed footballs.

brendanb438

Simple question about autographed footballs. I am looking around eBay and wanting to pickup a couple auto balls for my father for his upcoming birthday. I see that for PSA/DNA there isn't too much to choose from. What other companies can I look for on the Bay that I can hopefully pickup a ball and not have to worry about it being fake?


As always thank you.

Morgoth

Steiner, UD Authenticated are two that come to mind

NCDOLFAN

James Spence or JSA also.

MeteoriteGuy

All the above, plus tristar and AAA.

Also, many players have their own hologram's now. So any ball with a player hologram.

brendanb438

So is a company like GAI junk? Was looking for a Chris Johnson ball and seems everything on the bay is w/ COAs from these folks.

VegasBaby

GAI is pretty much junk, they used to be a decent company then went through bankruptcy and pretty much lost their credibility among collectors. PSA/DNA and James Spence (JSA) are the leading 3rd party authenticators in the country. In most cases they didn't witness the autograph, but are authenticating the autograph as legitimate. There are also memorabilia companies that contract with players and teams (Steiner, TriStar, Mounted Memories, Upper Deck Authenticated (UDA), GTSM, etc) that witness the signings and put their holograms on the items. Lastly, as a previous poster mentioned, some players have their own hologram (Elway, Montana, Young, Rice, Peyton, etc) that they put on memorabilia they sign. I would stick to purchasing items that come with COAs and holograms/stickers from these companies.