A photograph of Mikhail Gorbachev and Ronald Reagan embracing was extremely popular at the time. Thousands of photographs were requested by collectors to be signed by Mikhail Gorbachev.  This tremendous undertaking was dealt with by using the dreaded

Hi ya,

Can anyone identify any of these 9 autographs of 1930s-40s UK actors?

I say UK because the rest of the autograph album is full of UK actors from the same period.

Thanks in advance,

Indy

Ps: 'CHERRY XXXXXXX' may just tax the brain a little lol

This is quite serious and shows the lack of knowledge and lack of research yet the ability to take the money from a collector for a worthless authentication.  

The following is just another example, why over seventy dealers will not accept a return fo

Bobby Livingston <bl@rrauction.com> Thu, Mar 8, 2012 at 12:40 PM
To: Steve Cyrkin <steve.cyrkin@autographmagazine.com>
THIS IS NOT TO BE SHARED
My initial reaction is you should distance yourself from Mike Frost and this "statement":

1. Mike Frost wi

How bad are the ABC type authenticating companies?  Worse than you can even imagine. Basically many in the know just call it fraud and geared toward amature collectors who are willing to waste their good money on nothing more than a "guess" from an i

                     TAKE THE FOLLOWING WARNING VERY SERIOUS.      

 The following stories are from actual emails. Disgusting language is often used; therefore it is highly recommended that ONLY mature adults continue to read forward.

 For the record,

The scam of authenticating autographs by the ABC companies who claim they can authenticte autographs is being hit hard.  With all the documented proof of thousands and thousands of mis-authenticated autographs by these type companies, this has to be

Not long ago contact was made with most of the high profile auction houses who  offer autograph items, especially in sports. Not one of the auction houses is a member of PADAH. 

They were asked why do they use the ABC type companies who claim to authe

Mike Frost who also goes by the name of Michael Feigenbaum (taken from court records) who also used the name Dr. Frost until he was investigated by a medical department in Florida.  He said someone else made up the cards however anyone who had been t

Another member of the White Hat gang goes to jail.  Eric Santonauro according to James Spence was a super valuable employee to JSA authentication.  According to an insider who has seen third-party scams upfront Eric Santonauro stole over $100,000.00