Editor’s note: This article is a very brief synopsis of the events that have recently taken place on net54baseball.com. I wanted to put all of the before and after scans together in one place for easy reference. If this topic interests you, I highly recommend reading these net54 threads in their entirety:
http://www.net54baseball.com/showthread.php?t=262580
http://www.net54baseball.com/showthread.php?t=262673
On 11/25/2018, a Net54 member started a thread titled “Did I buy a Fake Marquard Signed T206?”. The original poster had purchased the above Marquard from Clean Sweep Auctions for $1,264 on 12/01/2018. It came with a JSA Certification, but when he sent it into SGC to be put into a holder, they rejected it as “not an authentic example”.
It took less than three hours for another member to post damning evidence that the signature is indeed a forgery. Using cached ebay sales results from Worthpoint.com, he was able to find proof that the card had sold recently, in a PSA 2.5 holder.
This discovery led to more research, and before long, 15 signed T206s were proven to be forgeries that were produced in the last two or three years. All 15 were certified as authentic by either JSA, SGC, or PSA.
I have a feeling this story is just beginning. I will write more about this topic as new information comes out. Here are the 15 forged signatures:
Fred Parent
Billy Sullivan
Bob Rhoades
Paddy Livingston
Frank Baker
Elmer Flick
Heinie Zimmerman
Wid Conroy
Larry Doyle
Jap Barbeau
Red Murray
Eddie Cicotte
