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02-13-2013, 03:04 AM
Need advice. TTM Autographs
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.)
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02-13-2013, 06:23 AM
RE: Need advice. TTM Autographs
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.
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02-13-2013, 11:51 AM
RE: Need advice. TTM Autographs
Cool, thanks.
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02-13-2013, 11:58 AM
RE: Need advice. TTM Autographs
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
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02-13-2013, 02:25 PM
RE: Need advice. TTM Autographs
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.
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02-13-2013, 03:22 PM
RE: Need advice. TTM Autographs
thanks! ill look into psa
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02-13-2013, 03:25 PM
RE: Need advice. TTM Autographs
(02-13-2013, 02:25 PM)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
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02-13-2013, 08:33 PM
RE: Need advice. TTM Autographs
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
