u/Desert_Lover89

I’ve gotten a massive number of longboat customizations but can’t seem to find a spot in Ireland to do it.

My father (71) has been amazing a collection of memorabilia ranging from sports, WWII, music, and civil war items for many years. In the last ~5-10 years with online auctions he’s frankly gotten out of hand. This week we went to pair down his collection and I took detailed photos of ~20 higher end baseball items and sent them off to Heritage who he’d planned to list them through and Every last one was fake per heritage. In looking at the CoAs they’re all subpar or bad (GFA, Park Place, ACE., etc.). This is like my worst fear recognized as I have warned him and worried about it for a while now. He’s in denial GFA can possibly be a bad company because of “how professional they are” and I can’t dissuade him. Is there any good solid reference I can show him regarding good vs bad CoA companies? I know Beckett, PSA, and JSA are supposed to be decent. Theres also numerous other small CoA groups he has stuff from like “Scientific Authentication Company” which I’m skeptical of but haven’t had authenticated. Right now he’s wanting to pay JSA to come authenticate the whole collection and unless he’s using it to sue the auction house I think this is a waste of more money. 😕