[Bennett_25]

When I was younger, I did a lot of through the mail autographs. It was such a joy going to the mailbox to see if I received anything that day. In good faith I assumed these signatures to be from the players that I had written to. I understand signatures can be "clubhouse" signatures, auto penned or done by a secretary or something. I attached a photo below of some of the "bigger name" athletes that responded to my request. I'd like to get these authenticated for not only from a value aspect, but for my own peace of mind. My question is this, what route should I go? I would like to have these slabbed as well. I have never done anything like this before and just looking for some insight.
Thanks for reading. (Sorry for the bad picture, no scanner and my camera is junk too.)

[nineof]

Nice TTM autographed cards. Both BGS and PSA have services that authenticate and slab these types of cards. Both are good so it's more of a personal choice on which company to go with.

[Bennett_25]

Cool, thanks.

[swjrp10]

Frankly i dont like becketts auto authentication, i prefer psa, plus they give you the option of having it encapsulated, i dont think you get that from beckett.

Also, and ive never dealt with them before so idk, i think i heard somewhere where you have to send the autos to jsa first then to beckett, this may not be true (it didnt make sense when i heard it either, so i hope its not) but thats why i prefer psa

[jdetter23]

PSA/DNA those. They will slab them for you and everything. Not sure but I think beckett would require a JSA authentication before they would slab it.

[Bennett_25]

thanks! ill look into psa

[swjrp10]

(02-14-2013 05:25 AM)jdetter23 Wrote:  PSA/DNA those. They will slab them for you and everything. Not sure but I think beckett would require a JSA authentication before they would slab it.

guess I wasn't crazy after all lol

[jplarson]

With the JSA-BGS partnership, cards are subbed to JSA which are then sent to Beckett for encapsulation and graded if desired. While I prefer BGS cases, in this scenario PSA/DNA does everything in house and pricing is a bit cheaper.

http://www.beckett.com/grading/jsa_services