[petillo64]

hmmmmmmmmmmmmmmm

Anything in particular you are looking at, or just buying circumstances?

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1st, congrats on your pick-up on a nice looking card! Auto looks good to me , but I'm no expert. I'd get it authenticated. Not sure of that cost and if your just going to keep it, no rush in getting it done.

And thanks for the feedback joe/doc... I'm by no means an auto-expert either. I was looking at the flow too and in particular the "mark" seems consistent with others. It's almost toooooo good lol. Whoever signed it has some nice penmanship! Current plans are to get it authenticated, but more for my own piece of mind (I will crack the authentic slab and remove the card for display purposes when it comes back). May have been better off waiting and dropping on a psa authentic, but I haven't seen one on an 89 topps card for a while, and when I did it had a $150 tag on it.

Seller guaranteed the auto for up to 6 months which is a plus. We'll see how they handle it if it comes back non-authentic and we're outside of e bay's return policy window. Also, the seller hasn't sold any other mcgwire autos (or too many autos period) that I can see, so its not like he mastered Mark's sig and is cranking them out...