Does this Mays auto look good?

Allen · February 16, 2010 1:48PM

Opinions?

SDSportsFan · February 16, 2010 1:55PM

I say it's phonier than the proverbial $3 bill!

Steve

Dboneesq · February 16, 2010 2:03PM

I have a couple of Mays auto'd balls and this card looks a lot different than both of the balls. (Not saying mine are the real deal, but I think they are.) Also, I don't remember seeing a Mays auto like the one on that card, although I guess it's possible that the sharpie has really distorted the sig.

goraiders · February 16, 2010 2:04PM

I think gai was certifying the card,not the auto.

Smuggo · February 16, 2010 2:05PM

Not sure why someone would forge a signature on that card. Most likely sell for considerably more unsigned.

Allen · February 16, 2010 2:16PM

<< I think gai was certifying the card,not the auto. >>

No, GAI CERTIFIED is how they slab the autos. This is supposedly a vintage signature in ballpoint.

goraiders · February 16, 2010 2:20PM

<< 

<< I think gai was certifying the card,not the auto. >>

No, GAI CERTIFIED is how they slab the autos. This is supposedly a vintage signature in ballpoint. >>

I was making a funny,I think the auto is off.

Pete14Rose · February 16, 2010 4:16PM

Definitely no good.

MJB14 · February 16, 2010 10:34PM

I'd say no. The only thing that I sometimes wonder with something that is that bad of a forgery being pawned off as real is if it was signed at something other than an appearence. I have a Dan Fouts auto obtained at a terminal in the airport that no one, even myself. would believe is real if I didn't see him sign it. So there is a SLIGHT possibilility that he presented Mays the card somewhere and Willie signed it sloppily while standing there holding the card in his hand. As for me, I still wouldn't touch it authenticated or not unless I saw him sign it myself. JMO

Blackborder · February 16, 2010 11:30PM

mrmint23 · February 17, 2010 12:39AM

fkw · February 17, 2010 2:54AM

Mays' sig has changed many times over the years, that looks like a mid 80s one signed in a hurry.

No con is going to fake a sig on that card with a crappy feltpen...... especially a living player who signed freely back then.

PS that card is worth far less now than if it were unsigned IMO

Stone193 · February 17, 2010 5:05AM

I kinda believe - as fkw - that it's a real sig signed in haste.

Here's one of his transition sigs from his really early clean sig to his newer sigs which are not recognizable as Mays IMO.

mccardguy1 · February 17, 2010 5:45AM

This is the auto I received in the late 70's early 80's.

corvette1340 · February 17, 2010 5:58AM

<< I say it's phonier than the proverbial $3 bill!

Steve >>

not to get off track, but I have a $3 bill listed on Ebay right now. I real one!

$3 Dollar Bill

corvette1340 · February 17, 2010 6:00AM

as to the Mays. I'd be inclined to buy it for a discount and take my chances.

JHS5120 · February 17, 2010 6:32AM

That signature is from the late seventies early eighties. It is most likely authentic, all of the other examples people have shown to "compare" are examples from the past decade (with perhaps one exception). This is like taking a 1953 mantle sig and trying to campare it to a 1994 mantle sig, you can't. The sig is real in my book, but then again, you can never know.

bbcemporium · February 17, 2010 6:39AM

When it comes to auto authentication, has GAI been a reputable source in the past? How about currently?

Stone193 · February 17, 2010 6:57AM

<< That signature is from the late seventies early eighties. It is most likely authentic, all of the other examples people have shown to "compare" are examples from the past decade (with perhaps one exception). This is like taking a 1953 mantle sig and trying to campare it to a 1994 mantle sig, you can't. The sig is real in my book, but then again, you can never know. >>

Not sure I agree with your time frame.

His sig with the Willie that looks more like a 4 has been around since 1992 - my son got his sig on a ball and bat and it looks pretty much like the one mrmint posted.

I really think the sig where one can see the "Willie" - as such (as I posted above) - is an 80s sig and perhaps earlier.

One can see his sig in 1952 was clear and along the way it got less and less readable.

SDSportsFan · February 17, 2010 7:02AM

The earliest Mays signature I have, was obtained in 1979, and it is one of the "4illie"s.

I would say that any signatures where the W actually resembles a W, is from no later than the mid-late 1970s.

Steve

Does this Mays auto look good?

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