A few weeks before Bob Feller died I bought this autographed Baseball Legends card for $2.00...There was no COA and it's not an official signed older card as you sometimes see in the Topps Heritage sets. So, if real, the card was either a through the mail request or maybe signed in person. But "is it real?" is the important question.
I have an official Bob Feller autograph that I purchased from the Bob Feller museum in Van Meter, IA last year. Here's what that signature looks like and compare it to the on-card autograph.
It is the "B" in "Bob" that is getting me here. The "F" in Feller looks okay to me.
Here are a few other certified versions of Feller's signature for you to compare. It seems to me that on my Baseball Legends card he was signing with a pen with a wider tip and that's why it seems like the Baseball Legends signature is not as precise as the others.
What do you think? Fake or genuine?
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| 1988 Pacific Baseball Legends #101 Bob Feller |
I have an official Bob Feller autograph that I purchased from the Bob Feller museum in Van Meter, IA last year. Here's what that signature looks like and compare it to the on-card autograph.
It is the "B" in "Bob" that is getting me here. The "F" in Feller looks okay to me.
Here are a few other certified versions of Feller's signature for you to compare. It seems to me that on my Baseball Legends card he was signing with a pen with a wider tip and that's why it seems like the Baseball Legends signature is not as precise as the others.
What do you think? Fake or genuine?
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Such concerns are why I can't get behind the autograph thing too much without a certification or unless I personally got the autograph, of course. But I'm suspicious by nature.
Picked up a slew of autographs at The National, including a couple from the same guys. Signatures from a couple of them that signed balls appear to be quite different than the on-cards from the same player - signed in front of me seconds apart. I just don't know how even the experts can be sure.
Feller signed a TON so it is very possible that it is real, but comparing autographs I'm less worried about the "B" (which just looks a bit sloppy) and more about the F. Notice how the F connects into the lower case E on yours, but in all of the certified ones the F has its own defined start and finish point, while the "e" then starts on its own.
Just a thought.