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Thanks
Craig

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  • Loyalty32Loyalty32 Posts: 501 ✭✭✭
    Any opinions?

    Thanks
    Craig
  • LarkinCollectorLarkinCollector Posts: 8,975 ✭✭✭✭✭
    I'm not an expert on his sig, but that doesn't look good at all to me.
    Who is the Golf Card Guy?
  • MikeyPMikeyP Posts: 990 ✭✭✭
    Do you have any idea when the item was signed? It is not typical of Willie Mays' current autograph.
    "Nobody's ever gone the distance with Creed, and if I can go that distance, you see, and that bell rings and I'm still standin', I'm gonna know for the first time in my life, see, that I weren't just another bum from the neighborhood."
  • Loyalty32Loyalty32 Posts: 501 ✭✭✭
    LarkinCollector - I appreciate your opinion. The "W" looks different. Almost like a star.

    MikeyP - Almost everything in the lot was from 1986-1988. The card is from 1984. I'm guessing right around that time. I left a message with the seller to see if he had any idea.

    Thanks
    Craig
  • LarkinCollectorLarkinCollector Posts: 8,975 ✭✭✭✭✭


    << <i>LarkinCollector - I appreciate your opinion. The "W" looks different. Almost like a star. >>


    That was the red flag for me, I've never seen the star. I was using an early-mid 70s auto for my comparison, so I'm not sure what his mid-80s auto looked like.
    Who is the Golf Card Guy?
  • MikeyPMikeyP Posts: 990 ✭✭✭


    << <i>Almost everything in the lot was from 1986-1988. The card is from 1984. I'm guessing right around that time. >>



    The overall appearance of the autograph would place it in that time period. I have never seen Willie Mays autograph his name with a star in place of the "W" before. That is what concerns me the most about it. If anyone is able to find an image of an exemplar that includes a star in place of the "W", I would really like to see it.
    "Nobody's ever gone the distance with Creed, and if I can go that distance, you see, and that bell rings and I'm still standin', I'm gonna know for the first time in my life, see, that I weren't just another bum from the neighborhood."
  • dennis07dennis07 Posts: 1,842 ✭✭✭
    I am not an expert but the Mays autos I have seen looks nothing like the name Willie Mays. In this auto you can actually tell the name is Willie Mays.
    Collecting 1970 Topps baseball
  • Loyalty32Loyalty32 Posts: 501 ✭✭✭
    I appreciate the opinions folks.

    Thanks
    Craig
  • psychumppsychump Posts: 1,378 ✭✭✭
    Definitely not. I have his and I have asked him about his signature and he told me he rarely writes anything else but his name. No embellishments like a star or HOF maybe his #24. My eBay photo has me with Mays.
    Tallulah Bankhead — 'There have been only two geniuses in the world. Willie Mays and Willie Shakespeare.'
  • MikeyPMikeyP Posts: 990 ✭✭✭


    << <i>I am not an expert but the Mays autos I have seen looks nothing like the name Willie Mays. In this auto you can actually tell the name is Willie Mays. >>



    Willie Mays was actually much more careful with his autograph in the past. Here is a link to some very good exemplars.

    Willie Mays Autographs
    "Nobody's ever gone the distance with Creed, and if I can go that distance, you see, and that bell rings and I'm still standin', I'm gonna know for the first time in my life, see, that I weren't just another bum from the neighborhood."
  • jay0791jay0791 Posts: 3,575 ✭✭✭✭
    no way

    I have at least 5 legit autos
    Collecting PSA... FB,BK,HK,and BB HOF RC sets
    1948-76 Topps FB Sets
    FB & BB HOF Player sets
    1948-1993 NY Yankee Team Sets
  • Anthony555Anthony555 Posts: 95
    No
  • mrmoparmrmopar Posts: 1,092 ✭✭✭✭
    Craig, Are you sure that it is actually signed? A while back (late 70s/early 80s), Renata Galasso had a card set she was selling and I believe the backs of some or all of the cards made up a shot of a run of signed Mays cards. It reminds me of that.
    I collect Steve Garvey, Dodgers and signed cards. Collector since 1978.
  • mrmoparmrmopar Posts: 1,092 ✭✭✭✭
    The 4th image on this search has a piece of what I talking about

    https://www.google.com/search?q=renata+galasso+willie+mays+signed+cards+photo&source=lnms&tbm=isch&sa=X&ei=18_qU9vwGMPBigLq1IDADQ&ved=0CAYQ_AUoAQ&biw=1624&bih=886#q=renata+galasso+willie+mays+signed+cards&tbm=isch&imgdii=_

    I collect Steve Garvey, Dodgers and signed cards. Collector since 1978.
  • slum22slum22 Posts: 2,594 ✭✭✭✭
    I met Willie Mays and got his autograph in person in the early 90's at a card show. The auto I have does not look anything like the one you have. I am not an expert by any means on autos and I know his autograph today looks much different than mine from the 90's, but I would say no on yours.
    Steve
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