Cricket memorabilia - provenance

[100SRV]

Mods - not sure if this is the correct area for the thread.

While looking for a cricket-themed Christmas present for a relative I found this:
https://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/Autograph-Genuine-Crick...

but knowing nothing about cricket how do I know if it is genuine?


The certificate of authenticity matches a memorabilia auctioneer and the signature is as close as you can get on a ball to this on the TCCB cover.

https://www.benham.co.uk/pd/1990-Cricket-Tour---Si...

[Randy Winkman]

Good question. I'm coming at it from the opposite direction. I've just inherited various cricket scorecards from the 1960s/70s signed by various international players and a 1968 (football) European Cup final programme signed by most of the Man Utd team. I know they are genuine but there's clearly no way of proving that.

[Cheib]

You can't know. Funnily enough my son is cricket mad and wanted a signed shirt for his birthday/Xmas. I found a Joe Root signed shirt on eBay....the provenance was guaranteed by the bloke selling it who "has it signed by Joe Root" on a gold day. He couldn't see why I didn't think his guarantee was with toffee.

Ended up buying one of a company who have contracts with some of the players....

[anonymous-user]

My thoughts are that if Benhams, a reputable auction house, haven't qualified the description, they are sure it's genuine.

An exact match of a signature is usually a sign of something iffy because we all sign slightly different each time, be it angle, size, space or loops.