Need help identifying some autos on a football

wolfbear · July 12, 2009 3:27PM

Joe Montana on the left,
but the other two I have no idea who they are.

Also, do they all look authentic?

Thanks for any help ...

BigDaddyBowman · July 12, 2009 3:34PM

Maybe Harris Barton?

wolfbear · July 12, 2009 3:39PM

Harris Barton it is!

From an eBay auction :

Thanks Big Daddy!

gumbyfan · July 12, 2009 3:44PM

...the third is Ronnie Lott

edited to add: the three went on to be business partners after football...link

wolfbear · July 12, 2009 3:49PM

Thanks Craig!

Mystery solved. Doesn't take long around here ...

gumbyfan · July 12, 2009 4:25PM

Happy to help...but now that I'm looking at it closely, it almost appears like there are a lot of stops in the Lott signature. I'm no expert, but just the three white dots in the o of Ronnie look like stops. The loop in the L of Lott looks like it has stops as well.

Again, not an expert, but hopefully others will chime in with their thoughts on that. It's probably good, but worth a second look before buying if you're the buyer here...

wolfbear · July 12, 2009 5:02PM

Picked it up at a charity auction a couple of years ago in Seattle.
It was late, most folks had left, and there aren't many 49er fans in Seahawk land.

The guy auctioning it only knew that Montana was on it.
I got it for the opening bid of maybe something like $ 150 bucks.
We were there to support the cause so I was just happy to pick up something kind of cool while helping out.

Don't remember getting any kind of COA with it.
It's just been sitting on the mantle ever since and from time to time I wonder about it ...

MooseDog · July 13, 2009 12:40AM

Those are probably all fine. Most of the 49ers in those days were pretty willing signers. Lott was always great, and would even sign if he had an armful of stuff (a tactic many athletes used when they had to walk through the public to get to their cars after games) but you'd have to hold the item for him and sometimes get shaky signatures like the one on the ball. I have even witnessed lot signing with a cast on his writing arm. The dude was 100% class when it came to fans IMHO. Different story if you had the ball and were headed his way on the field.

nearmint · July 13, 2009 1:03AM

I was going to guess Hare Butis and Prim Jtoy.

lawnmowerman · July 13, 2009 1:23AM

Here are some real Barton and Lott sigs for comparison. The sigs on the ball look pretty shaky.

Need help identifying some autos on a football

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