Authenticity 101
Making sure it is what it says it is.
Whenever I get a phone call asking about the price of their particular piece of sporting memorabilia that they want valued my first question to them is always does it have a certificate of authenticity.
The certificate of authenticity is an extremely important document and is the key to the value of the item. And it isn’t just if there is a certificate of authenticity or not, it also depends on who has issued the document. A certificate of authenticity coming from a reputable name who has been in business for a long time is a lot more trusted than one that comes from someone who’s just popped up on eBay in the last few months. There are a lot of dealers now also offer a photo showing the sportsperson or celebrity signing your piece of memorabilia but how can you be certain that they are signing yours and that the photo wasn’t taken off someone else’s signing session. Read more…
Storm Premiership memorabilia, is it worth something?
None for 2007/09
My educated guess would be yes. Why you might ask? We don’t know for sure if such a thing has ever happened before we are a team has won the premiership and then seven months later had been stripped from them as well as one for two years before however that adds to the uniqueness and collectability of the items.
Just in case you don’t know I do deal in sports memorabilia and have so for the past two years and I learnt from someone who has over 20 years experience.
Now getting back to the Melbourne Storm. Each year’s grand finalists in most sports have a premiership winning T-shirt first batch printed up so that fans of the winning side can get their hands on them quickly and the losing side’s T-shirts are normally destroyed however a few normally make their way onto eBay and other such sites and usually go for well over the recommended retail price if they had won the premiership. So imagine what a fully signed, authenticated, framed and certified by the NRL premiership jersey would be worth.
