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Andrea Boltresz's avatar

I'm a forensic document analyst in Australia and I work mostly on authentication for government departments and insurers but also increasingly more private clients who are distrustful of the big TPAs. I think you are wrong about inscriptions. There are plenty of forgers who specialise in them, and also in faking provenance, which can be incredibly detailed. CoAs from the three big TPAs are also increasingly faked, which is an interesting new twist in the forgery game. This issue is entirely in the hands of collectors: they create the market and they can insist on proper reporting with evidence, or they can continue to pay CoA mills to tell them what they want to hear. I know what most people will chooose.

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Jeremy Burke's avatar

Saveafricanow used to be legit and I would see him at every book signing in NYC with bags of books for authors to sign. He eventually started being blacklisted at local bookstores because he would never actually buy any books from the local store hosting the signing and come in with twenty books that he bought elsewhere. His turn to forgery really seemed to get going when COVID hit and he could no longer get signatures in person but it also may have predated that time. It’s sad that eBay has not shut him down and he continues to sell forged autographs on the platform to uninformed buyers.

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