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CHIN MUSIC: Say It Ain’t Joe-Huggins & Scott Pimps A Halper Fraud; JSA &...
By Peter J. Nash Sept. 16, 2014 A "Shoeless" Joe Jackson fake (top left) sourced to Barry Halper (bottom right) is up for sale at Huggins & Scott. -Huggins & Scott thought they had a...
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Cooperstown Scandal Takes Bizarre Turn; SABR Proves Pirated HOF Photo Of...
By Peter J. Nash October 3, 2014 It is nothing new for an artifact stolen from the Baseball Hall of Fame to turn up for sale in a Huggins & Scott auction as there have been a bunch of them sold by...
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CHIN MUSIC: Yogi Berra Museum Heist Coverage; Fraud Alert For REA Sale; Net54...
By Peter J. Nash October 16, 2014 The Yogi Berra Museum (top left) was robbed last week and NYDN reporter Michael O'Keeffe (bottom right) went to Rob Lifson (top right) for an expert opinion on museum...
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CHIN MUSIC: SF Giants Owner Wants Mastro To Sing; MLB & HOF Endorse Phony...
By Peter J. Nash October 27, 2014 Uniform collector and Giants minority owner, Dan Scheinman (top) wrote to the Judge about the sentencing of Bill Mastro (Forbes Photo) -Bill Mastro, Doug Allen and...
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Why Does Heritage Sell So Many PSA/DNA-Certified Fakes? Employees Jordan &...
By Peter J. Nash November 6, 2014 Last spring, Heritage Auctions sold a bogus letter alleged to have been written by 19th century Hall of Famer John M. Ward. The sale of the letter was a prime...
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Boston Red Sox Photo Stolen From Baseball Hall Of Fame Is Removed From...
By Peter J. Nash November 12, 2014 Hot on the heels of the recent auction withdrawal of the 1909 Pittsburgh Pirate photo that was stolen from the National Baseball Library in Cooperstown, another...
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An All-American Case Of Consumer Fraud: How Panini America, MLB & The...
By Peter J. Nash November 22, 2014 When kids and collectors opened up their Donruss “Timeless Treasures” packs back in 2005, a select few were thrilled that they pulled “relic cards” celebrating the...
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SAY-HEY: Chumlee Was Right! Uni-Historian Says Pawn Stars Bought A Bogus...
By Peter J. Nash December 5, 2014 When a man walked onto the set of Antiques Roadshow in 2011 with an alleged 1961 Willie Mays uniform in his hands, Heritage Auction Galleries’ consignment director...
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Searching For Tommy McCarthy: The Hunt For The Last Will & Testament Of A...
By Peter J. Nash December 12, 2014 The FBI and the Boston Police Department zeroed in on court officer Joe Schnabel and they knew they had their man. The authorities arrested Schnabel in May of 1999...
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Hauls Of Shame’s Top 10 Stories Of 2014: The Year’s Most Popular Reports...
By Peter J. Nash December 29, 2014 2014 saw more turmoil and fraud in the memorabilia industry and Hauls of Shame was there to report on many issues that were overlooked or ignored by the mainstream...
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Why The Antiques-Roadshow Trove Of Boston Baseball History Isn’t Worth $1...
By Peter J. Nash January 9, 2014 When a woman strolled onto the set of Antiques Roadshow with a long-lost archive linked to Boston’s baseball history, she never expected to hear PBS appraiser, Lee...
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Is Mort Rogers The Granddaddy Of The American Baseball Card? Olbermann’s...
By Peter J. Nash January 20, 2015 Keith Olbermann recently used the platform of his ESPN telecast to call out Antiques Roadshow appraiser Lee Dunbar for her million-dollar appraisal of a group of...
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The Legacy Of Bud Selig: Cooperstown Bound & Tarnished Like His...
By Peter J. Nash February 5, 2015 Last week, Allan H. “Bud” Selig officially stepped down as Baseball’s czar and passed the reins to his hand-picked successor, Rob Manfred. Selig served as MLB’s ninth...
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The Scribbles & Scrawls Of “Shoeless” Joe: The Real Jackson Sigs vs....
By Peter J. Nash February 9, 2015 Legend had it that “Shoeless” Joe Jackson was an illiterate incapable of signing his own name and filmmaker John Sayles contributed to this perception in his film...
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The Scribbles & Scrawls Of “Shoeless” Joe: A Tale Of Two Jackson-Signed...
By Peter J. Nash February 18, 2015 Scroll to Bottom for Update: “Shoeless” Joe seemed to be everywhere last week blowing up Twitter and making the rounds on the nightly news. As reported by the likes...
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Could The RR Class Action Lawsuit Signal The Downfall Of PSA/DNA? Eaton,...
By Peter J. Nash March 4, 2015 It’s not a baseball memorabilia dispute but every baseball collector will be familiar with the names of the characters getting dragged into the RR Auction class action...
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Affidavit Of Deceased Auction Exec Alleges Shill-Bidding & Fraud At RR By...
By Peter J. Nash March 13, 2015 In our last report we detailed several issues that sources said would surface in the RR Class Action Lawsuit related to allegations of shill-bidding and fraud and the...
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The Name Game: The Untold Story Of REA’s Million-Dollar T-206 Honus Wagner...
By Peter J. Nash April 23, 2015 (Scroll to bottom for Update): Internet auction bidding has exceeded $1 million for what Robert Edward Auctions calls the “Oceanside Wagner,” a high-grade PSA-3 example...
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Robert Edward Auctions Is Selling Two 19th-Century Rarities That Fit The...
By Peter J. Nash April 24, 2015 Last month it was revealed in court papers that former Mastro Auctions exec Doug Allen was accused by the Detroit Public Library of stealing two photos from its Ernie...
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To Catch A Thief: New Evidence Sheds Light On Missing Boston Baseball...
By Peter J. Nash May 18, 2015 Rob Lifson, the New Jersey auctioneer who was caught decades ago stealing rare 19th century photographs from the New York Public Library, said his apprehension was an...
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