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Authentic Sports Memorbilia COAs anyone heard of them?

JasonJ597JasonJ597 Posts: 2
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Has anyone heard of COAs from a company called Authentic Sports Memorbilia? All there COAs have only a email address to contact them which is authenticusa@aol.com . If you do have any information on them could you please let me know. Thanks

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  • VegasBabyVegasBaby Posts: 82
    I've never heard of them and personally I'm very skeptical of any COA that not from one of the big memorabilia companies (UDA, Steiner, Mounted Memories, TriStar, GTSM) or PSA/JSA. A COA from from anyone else isn't worth the paper it's written on.
  • MeatloafMeatloaf Posts: 1,308
    Agreed.
  • Hank36Hank36 Posts: 175 ✭✭
    Is there an online guide to COA's anyplace? Seriously--I have two different types of Topps Vault COA's, but when I've asked when Topps made this change, nobody seemed to have ever noticed that there had ever been a change.
  • MeteoriteGuyMeteoriteGuy Posts: 7,140 ✭✭
    There are three types I think, if you post scans I might be able to help.

    The very first ones were hand signed, those only lasted a year or two (circa. 2005-2006).

    I've always hated they didn't make them card size for easy storage with the cards. If for resale I put them in a drawer I have, while if for personal collection, I tend to fold them in half, as it makes them just slightly bigger then card size, and the Topps Vault cased cards, with a folded COA, will fit in a team bag.

    The hologram also changed which can help date the item, but that was about a year ago and likely of no help to you.


    Edit: Referring to Topps Vault COA's....not the OP's question.




    Collecting PSA graded Steve Young, Marcus Allen, Bret Saberhagen and 1980s Topps Cards.
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  • Hank36Hank36 Posts: 175 ✭✭


    << <i>There are three types I think, if you post scans I might be able to help.

    The very first ones were hand signed, those only lasted a year or two (circa. 2005-2006).

    I've always hated they didn't make them card size for easy storage with the cards. If for resale I put them in a drawer I have, while if for personal collection, I tend to fold them in half, as it makes them just slightly bigger then card size, and the Topps Vault cased cards, with a folded COA, will fit in a team bag.

    The hologram also changed which can help date the item, but that was about a year ago and likely of no help to you.


    Edit: Referring to Topps Vault COA's....not the OP's question. >>


    I have to dig mine out, but IIRC, the older TV COA's actually named the item, and the more recent oness simply had some sort of index number. It would be nice if TV had some sort of online registry for those numbers (as does PSA) but they apparently do not. Sometimes I think it would be too easy for somebody to mock up some sort of phony negative color separation proof thingy for an old Nolan Ryan card or whatever and then claim to officially purchased it from Topps Vault, and include a COA with an item number this was actually issued to a Joe Schlabotnik proof--there's no resource that I know of listing what items have actually been sold by the the Topps Vault over the years.
  • KbKardsKbKards Posts: 1,782 ✭✭✭
    "Has anyone heard of COAs from a company called Authentic Sports Memorbilia? All there COAs have only a email address to contact them which is authenticusa@aol.com . If you do have any information on them could you please let me know. Thanks"

    If they spell memorabilia like that on their certs they must be top notch.
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