Did I just score the find of the century?!
dowdy
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Went thrift shopping with my girlfriend and found these signed Nikes for $20. Yes $20 for the pair
They're Kobe Bryant shoes but I'm not sure if it's his signature so maybe someone can help me here
It would be an awesome find if they were real but I've never seen a Kobe signature similar to this.
It makes me wonder though, if they are fake, wouldn't the faker try and make it look exactly like a previous sig he's done and there are too many variations with the two sigs on both shoes which means they were quickly done (like a real sig), not meretriciously done as a faker would.
I am thinking of spending money to take it to Beckett to have their opinion but I live in Australia and shipping cost will be costly so just want to know if it's worth it
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Color me skeptical, but I have a hard time imagining how authentic signed Kobe Bryant shoes ended up in a thrift store in Australia. Save the money on the shipping and grading. Others can hopefully chime in on the signature.
I've got Manny Pacquiao and Oscar Dela Hoya boxing gloves signed and PSA authenticated and I don't think any of those two have come to Australia. (bought over internet) but hopefully others here can shine light on it
What year is that model from? Athletes change signatures occasionally maybe it's an early signature? I have no prior knowledge on Kobe's signature though. Just throwing the idea out there.
These are the shoes
http://www.ebay.com.au/itm/272662518306?_trksid=p2055119.m1438.l2649&ssPageName=STRK:MEBIDX:IT
Saids 2009 so pretty late in his career
Signature does not look like any I've seen from Kobe
Maybe the faker decided to autograph them as a joke before he donated them.
Looks badly forged
All four "B"s are different
It was worth the gamble to pick them up for $20. Hope you get lucky, but it's a longshot
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not the find of the century either way.
best of luck though.
Thanks for the replies.
Fake or not, the shoes itself are worth at least $150, since they're still brand new so still a good find nevertheless
I couldn't tell you if those are real sigs or not. I don't claim to be an expert. But I will claim that this board has never, ever, NEVER - until now - seen or used the word "meretriciously". I'd bet my entire collection on it. Well done. Thunderous applause.
those could be koby shoes when he toured japan - that would be why they ended in Australia
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Major_League_Baseball_players_from_Panama
signature looks good, but its far from the find of the century. The find of the century would be ............ (respond below)
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Major_League_Baseball_players_from_Panama
Does this count (see second post from the bottom): https://forums.collectors.com/discussion/comment/8242786#Comment_8242786
Must I clarify? Ok, this board, as declared in my prior post, would essentially refer to the plethora of sports geeks who enjoy discussing the exploration, identification, authentication......and quite often the permutation of cards and memorabilia related to the endeavors of athletes, be they professional or otherwise.
The U.S. Coin Forum is a completely different universe within a universe and pertains to the efforts of people who are rather strange and contorted. While I do agree that there are occasional crossover collectors with misfired brain matter (Grote15, I'm talking to you), the submission of a post from a foreign society does not qualify. You may not have my collection detroitfan2.
But thank you for giving it the ol' college try.
lol
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Major_League_Baseball_players_from_Panama
Travis, you big word usage finally caught up to you.....lol. Well played Detroit fan.
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Travis pushed all in and Detroit fan called. Now they are asking for a ruling.
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if that doesnt, heres one from the bst - sports...and shes a beaut at that:
https://forums.collectors.com/discussion/comment/1936195#Comment_1936195
Good lord now that is a mega rant.
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Dowdy - It's not often I have to Google the definition of a word I read on a message board. You made me a little bit smarter today, thanks.
glad to see I gave you an English lesson lol
I pretty much figured that and I can't say I disagree with your assessment!
To be fair, I'm not sure the word "meretriciously" appears in that post? And whatever happened to Chaz?
This is some fun. You might be better off without my collection, anyways. What would you do with 100,000+ 1989 Upper Deck baseball commons? Build a sundeck? Maybe I should have mentioned that in my earlier post.....everything else I've got laying around here - in the technical classification - is inventory. That's my story and I'm sticking to it.
What would you do with 100,000+ 1989 Upper Deck baseball commons?
What I would do with 100,000+ 1989 Upper Deck baseball commons is double my collection size of 1989 Upper Deck baseball commons . . .
it doesnt matter what was in your collection.
just knowing it used to be yours will provide us w/ hours of entertainment...
In person auto's only, else, false. Not getting why people in this day and age of electricity still buy non in person autos. This concern though, compared to thinking about what the deal was prior to the big bang and how long it took the final black hole to suck up all other black holes to where the mass of the main black hole condensed itself enough to finally big bang and provide us all this ability to still buy fake auto's, really freaks me out. What then was before the big bang ?
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Oh wait. K-Mart sets. Gobs of them. You can have those, too.
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Kobe Bryant rarely, if ever, signed his last name and the handwriting on the shoes doesn't come close to resembling anything Kobe would have written in the years the shoe was manufactured. Save your money, no trusted authenticator will pass that signature.
I would check with Reed from BBCE.
Next you're going to tell me you have a bunch of 1981 Topps Scratch-offs! We may have the exact same collections.