More Mastro Controversy? Jordan Shooting Shirt

[Eric]

I got an email from someone saying the Jordan shooting shirt is not on display with the other mastro items. Can anyone at the National confirm this?

Eric

[both-teams-played-hard]

After their career was over, Carolina players were allowed to keep their jerseys and warm-ups. "Recycling" was not done. The MEARS letter speaks for itself. Let's hope Mastro learned this, and then ended the auction. Lampson wrote a LOA for Mastro, but see folks- Lampson does not know what he is talking about. I realize Lampson does not write the text of his LOAs, he just signs off on them. Lampson is a scape-goat and should hold his head low, with his shoulders slumped. He is a menace to collectors throughout the world and to everything decent and holy.

[kingjammy24]

the jordan shirt closed at $11k. i wonder if the winning bidder was made aware by mastro that mears was unable to authenticate the shirt.

- "For the year 2007, MEARS was only contracted with Mastro Auctions and REA. The contract called for us to look at all game worn/used items submitted to those houses. With our long-standing policy, a grade is assigned to each and every bat and jersey we offer opinions on. This included both favorable opinions and items deemed unable to authenticate. We have mandated for our auction house contracts that all our grades, which sometimes are low and not favorable, are printed in the lot description of their catalogs." - Troy Kinunen

so does that mean that mastro violated the contract?

while doug allen calls mears "the esteemed authentication service", it's not hard to see why dave grob fails to return the love and has publically stated that as long as allen is in charge, not only will he not do any work for them but he won't even bid on an item.

- some of the network54 folks have mentioned that it may be a JV shirt.
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re: the ted williams shirt

"In lieu of this, Mastro Auctions confidently stands by the jersey's authenticity on the basis of our analysis and our extensive experience and expertise handling the hobby's most elite and expensive game-worn uniforms."

if mastro apparently has their own in-house team of aces whose opinions override mears, then why did mastro bother hiring mears in the first place? from what it sounds like, mastro has all the expertise and experience needed so i fail to see why they shelled out the money to hire mears. or does their expertise only come in to play when mears rejects a $29k jersey?

anyway, the williams jersey closed at $29k.

rudy.

[both-teams-played-hard]

the jordan shirt closed at $11k. i wonder if the winning bidder was made aware by mastro that mears was unable to authenticate the shirt.

If Mastro did not inform the winning bidder of MEARS' findings, then, that is damn shady. Yes, Lampson doesn't do research and his opinion is worthless. But if Mastro kept MEARS' research hidden, then that is criminal. The real scoop of this story would be if Lampson was made aware of the MEARS research and the "unable to authenticate" letter. Mastro obviously knew. It seems Mastro could find some credibility in MEARS' reasearch. If you can't find it in your heart to do "the right thing"...for God's sake, don't do "the wrong thing".