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Spence Authenticates Forged Items as Genuine
Click here to see the Fox News video of James Spence authenticating forged signatures.
From AutographAlert.com... Many autograph collectors and dealers are still talking about James Spence’s appearance
on Fox News where Spence authenticated forged autographs as genuine. The autographs were forged by graphic artists at Fox
News and when the autographs were brought to Spence’s office he convincingly told the reporter that an autograph was
genuine but all the reasons why it was genuine. A most embarrassing moment for Spence and the authenticating trade.
Apparently Mr. Spence has not learned much about dealing with the news media. Earlier this week on Sunday, New York Channel 9 a similar report was aired at 10:30pm. The story ended up portraying Spence’s authenticating company in very bad light. James Spence had a booth at a local New Jersey sports show offering on-site authentication. A woman reporter went undercover and got an in person signature of Sal Bando. She then went outside with her camera crew and on a blank Bando photograph forged Bando’s name on it. They went and submitted the photo with the forged signature to JSA Authentication “Follow The Leader..” The Spence authentication team only looked at the signature for a few seconds and determined the signature on the photograph was genuine. JSA also issued a certificate of authenticity for the signed photograph. Bando was interviewed about this incident and expressed surprise that something like this could happen. Mollie Ann Bracigliano promoter of the show was also interviewed and was stunned by what took place. She was nearly speechless and stuttered through the interview. She said “I don’t know what to say other than I am sorry and embarrassed.” She added: “I can only hope that plenty of people saw this and maybe will think less highly of these authenticators.” Afterwards, James Spence when asked about this latest fiasco had no answer except to say he was sorry. |
