Two weeks ago, I got call from a reporter at Fox TV News in Atlanta looking for information on forged sports autographs. After some discussion, I suggested he use a local appraiser to be ‘on camera’ and render an opinion, so they could put this sleezy sports dealer on the spot. I arranged a meeting […]
As the former Chairman of the Ethics Committee for the International Society of Appraisers, I saw too many good appraisers end up in ethical and legal trouble. In almost every case, this nasty situation could have been totally and easily avoided. The negative results cost the appraiser many hours of anguish, and too many dollars […]
Just got this from my fellow APS members. A man representing himself as Col. Steven (or Stephen) Kaufman, (not his real name) passed several bad checks to dealers at the Metropolitan Expo stamp show in New York City -on Friday, – July 9. The man was white, about 5’7 approximately 50 years old, and normal […]