So I was reading someone else's thread in the box-breaks and someone was saying something about how the game used item was too clean to be game used...and it got me wondering...
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Most card manufacturers will put the following statement or something similar on the cards themselves "the enclosed game-worn material is guaranteed by <XXXXX company>" or it says "authentic memorabilia." Which to most people, it is implied that it was worn by that player...but is it? Were the items really worn in a game by THAT particular player? On most cards, I've noticed that the authenticity doesn't always say it was worn or used by the particular player featured on the card...just that it's game worn or used. So technically, the manufacturer is correct...
Case in point, I was at my LCS recently, and we had a discussion with a rep for a golf line who happened to stop by the check out the cards. We got on the subject of memorabilia on the latest SP Game Used. And he questioned the validity of the memorabilia because he noticed that a glove card for a particular player (who shall go nameless) was a brand of glove that the player would NEVER wear because that retired player NEVER would stray from his preferred brand. That made a lot of sense...
Any thoughts on this?
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Most card manufacturers will put the following statement or something similar on the cards themselves "the enclosed game-worn material is guaranteed by <XXXXX company>" or it says "authentic memorabilia." Which to most people, it is implied that it was worn by that player...but is it? Were the items really worn in a game by THAT particular player? On most cards, I've noticed that the authenticity doesn't always say it was worn or used by the particular player featured on the card...just that it's game worn or used. So technically, the manufacturer is correct...
Case in point, I was at my LCS recently, and we had a discussion with a rep for a golf line who happened to stop by the check out the cards. We got on the subject of memorabilia on the latest SP Game Used. And he questioned the validity of the memorabilia because he noticed that a glove card for a particular player (who shall go nameless) was a brand of glove that the player would NEVER wear because that retired player NEVER would stray from his preferred brand. That made a lot of sense...
Any thoughts on this?