Topps official: Bryce Harper Aflac autographs on market are not certified by Topps

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Posted on September 1, 2009 – 2:45 pm | Author: chrisolds
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A Topps official confirmed to Beckett Media on Tuesday that any 2009 Aflac autograph cards of Bryce Harper carrying a 3M sticker on the back are not certified by the company and did not originate from its session at the annual high school All-American game.

harperfrontAll of the cards signed by the highly touted high school prospect during the Topps autograph sessions at this year’s Aflac High School All-American High School Baseball Classic held last month in in San Diego will be certified and placed into packs of cards.

But only after Harper is drafted and signs with Topps.

One copy of the card carrying the sticker sold for as much as $750 recently on eBay and others have made  their way onto the secondary market.

While it’s definitely possible that the teen who has appeared on the covers of  Sports Illustrated and Beckett Baseball signed some of these cards — he’s signing plenty of items these days — there wouldn’t be any need for a seller to add the sticker — other than to mislead potential buyers.

Chris Olds has collected sports cards and memorabilia since 1987. Before coming to Beckett Media, he wrote about the hobby for the Orlando Sentinel on his blog, SportsStuff, and for the San Antonio Express-News and The Tuscaloosa (Ala.) News. Do you have a comment, question or idea? Send e-mail to him at colds@beckett.com.

4 Comments

ernest

I recently contacted, through eBay, the seller of this card named 6079audrey. This person wrote back: “that was a post on the beckett site by a non-reputable source simply a guy with a blog and i called topps and they said people like that do not have permission to make statements for their company. I also checked with the representative and he told me mine was 100% authentic and the reason these promos are taking so much heat is because they all are supposed to be in packs but topps leaked out only a few.”

I figure you have connections with the appropriate authorities. Based upon this seller response I would assume the cards are all fake.

Posted September 1, 2009 at 8:59 pm | Permalink
Jim

Today is 10-30-09 I am looking on ebay at a aflac
bryce harper auto. How can i tell if its real or not?

Posted October 30, 2009 at 9:35 am | Permalink
chrisolds

No autographed versions of that card presently available are certified by Topps.

It’s either signed by him elsewhere or it’s fake.

Posted October 30, 2009 at 9:42 am | Permalink
Brian Weinsheimer

LOL, thats pretty funny if you ask me since there are like 3 on ebay that i found..but yea 99.99999% of them are unsigned and LOL at the person going “this is not fake like the other 2″ So I contacted the guy. SHould be interesting to see what he says

Posted June 8, 2010 at 7:20 am | Permalink

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