autograph forgeries

Ty Cobb ALS dated 1916 (courtesy of the National Baseball Hall of Fame and Museum).
Ty Cobb

Signature Study: Ty Cobb

The FBI confiscated these fraudulently signed caps and jerseys in the 1999 Operation Bullpen bust, but as every collector knows, the problem of forgery has not gone away.
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These boxes of forged cuts represent only a small sampling of the tens of thousands produced by the gang. The FBI took this photo at its 2000 press conference announcing the bust of the ring and it has not been shown to the public before, like several of the images accompanying this article.
Authentication

Forged 'Cuts': How Crooks Spun Pieces of Paper into Gold

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