Signature authentication - Sports Memorabilia.

[Alex1975]

Hi All,

I have a signed Ferrari shirt that I would like to sell, it is signed my Michael Schumacher and Rubens Barrichello in 2006, a championship winning year. I would like to sell it and although I know the signatures are real I think I need a certificate of authentication for the best price. Does anyone know who the recognised authenticators of this sort of thing are. I don't want to just google it and get it done by someone who is not recognised by a wide audience.

Thanks for any help

Alex

 

[pbrown7582]

you need to be careful with COA@s as many are just handwritten photocopied bits of paper that you can knock up on any pc.

Best provenance is a picture at time of signing dont suppose you have one floating about?

Maybe there is a ferrari collectors club that could help?

 

[Alex1975]

you need to be careful with COA@s as many are just handwritten photocopied bits of paper that you can knock up on any pc.

Best provenance is a picture at time of signing dont suppose you have one floating about?

Maybe there is a ferrari collectors club that could help?

Na, My father was with a member of the FIA when the guys signed it so I know its real, it was always a personal item so intended to keep it and did not care about the COA but I now want the money so will look to have the signitures themself authenticated. It may well go to a collector I know but if not it will be much easier to sell with a COA. Sadly no photos at the signing and even if there was it could have been any red shirt being signed, not way to link it to mine.

Thanks

 

[pbrown7582]

i have a large collection of football memorabillia and to be fair it more a case of trusting would you are buying off rather than COA as many are collected as your shirt through a personal meeting.
I have no idea of the value of your item and im sure with a bit of research a value and an outlet could be found with or without a COA.

Good luck.

 

[Alex1975]

I think it is worth about £450 and maybe £600 in a frame with a COA. About the price of a new set of irons....

 

[PhilTheFragger]

I hear Gibbo has some spare ones

 

[Alex1975]

I hear Gibbo has some spare ones

The bit I am good at is finding places to buy from....

 

[pbrown7582]

Heres an company offering free test, a member of UACC I forgot about them.

http://www.autografica.co.uk/autograph-authentication-c-103.html

And a company dealing in similiar items.

http://www.itsalreadysigned4u.com/c...e_search_results/exact/250/michael+schumacher

 

[Alex1975]

Nice one, Gary at Autographica is very profesional, I shall be sending it there..

Thanks for your help!

 

[Doon frae Troon]

My auld tartan autograph book had Nicklaus, Palmer, Player and Willie Bauld all on the same page, somewhere between England and Scotland it has gone missing.

[Hearts supporters of a certain age will know who the real star of those four is]

 

[palindromicbob]

I've been thinking of selling my Irish open cap so this thread has given me a few ideas.

 

[HomerJSimpson]

I have a Lee Westwood shirt and a letter addressed to me as the organiser of a charity auction. Now if only he could win that first bloody major it would be worth more than £2.50

 

[CMAC]

I have Shay Givens signed keeper gloves along with a letter of authenticity from the club.................unfortunately it's Newcastle United.