If you like collecting autographs, you may recognize Steve Grad! He's an authenticator at Beckett Authentication Services and an autograph expert for the TV show "Pawn Stars". Steve joins us to discuss the authentication process and the new season of "Pawn Stars" currently airing on the History Channel.
Wednesday, 25 September 2019
Chatting with Steve Grad from "Pawn Stars"
If you like collecting autographs, you may recognize Steve Grad! He's an authenticator at Beckett Authentication Services and an autograph expert for the TV show "Pawn Stars". Steve joins us to discuss the authentication process and the new season of "Pawn Stars" currently airing on the History Channel.
Steve Grad from "Pawn Stars"
Is that autograph you've been hanging onto real or is it a fake. Steve Grad from the tv show "Pawn Stars" joined us to go over what to look for. The Rhode Show is WPRI 12's daily lifestyle show for having fun, eating well, and living life.
Monday, 23 September 2019
Steve Grad from Pawn Stars: Exclusive Interview at RICC 2018!
Want to know how much that autograph is worth? Is it authentic? Go to the guy that Pawn Stars trusts - Steve Grad from Beckett Authentication! He was recently at the 2018 Rhode Island Comic Con and we had a chance to chat with him!
RICC Exclusive Interview: Steve Grad from Pawn Stars!
RICC Exclusive Interview: Steve Grad from Pawn Stars!
VIP signatures are incredible collectibles – and chances would you say you are, claim in any event one… But where do you go or what do you do to check whether it's the genuine article? Simple answer: Do what the folks on Pawn Stars do – Go to their signature master, Steve Grad. (Better believe it, that person on the show – He's done more than 140 scenes!)
At RICC!
Steve and a portion of his group from Beckett Authentication Services were at the Rhode Island Comic Con – and we got an opportunity to talk with him! Overly liberal with his time – he shared a few stories, learning, and extraordinary guidance for those of us that have gathered a few signatures.
Frankly, before the meeting, I hadn't considered the significance of having signatures validated – however now I know better and totally get it!
Thus, snatch your Babe Ruth signed baseball and look at our meeting beneath:
About Steve:
Since 2013, Steve Grad has filled in as a signature master for Pawn Stars on The History Channel, and has been in the signature confirmation business for more than 20 years. He's a flat out proficient and he's additionally a quite wonderful person by and large – we welcome him setting aside the effort to talk with us!
Steve Grad Pawn Stars
Photograph: Steve Grad/Pawn Stars/Imdb
You can look at Pawn Stars on The History Channel and more on Steve Gad and Beckett
VIP signatures are incredible collectibles – and chances would you say you are, claim in any event one… But where do you go or what do you do to check whether it's the genuine article? Simple answer: Do what the folks on Pawn Stars do – Go to their signature master, Steve Grad. (Better believe it, that person on the show – He's done more than 140 scenes!)
At RICC!
Steve and a portion of his group from Beckett Authentication Services were at the Rhode Island Comic Con – and we got an opportunity to talk with him! Overly liberal with his time – he shared a few stories, learning, and extraordinary guidance for those of us that have gathered a few signatures.
Frankly, before the meeting, I hadn't considered the significance of having signatures validated – however now I know better and totally get it!
Thus, snatch your Babe Ruth signed baseball and look at our meeting beneath:
About Steve:
Since 2013, Steve Grad has filled in as a signature master for Pawn Stars on The History Channel, and has been in the signature confirmation business for more than 20 years. He's a flat out proficient and he's additionally a quite wonderful person by and large – we welcome him setting aside the effort to talk with us!
Steve Grad Pawn Stars
Photograph: Steve Grad/Pawn Stars/Imdb
You can look at Pawn Stars on The History Channel and more on Steve Gad and Beckett
Thursday, 19 September 2019
Signature Authenticator Steve Grad Says Forgers Getting Creative
It's National week in Chicago and Beckett's Steve Grad is an exceptionally bustling person. You couldn't advise that he'd quite recently flown back to his home city from an occasion in London. The pastime's greatest occasion kept his vitality level to some degree much the same as a third grader at break.
Graduate, additionally surely understood as the signature authenticator on the hit TV appear, Pawn Stars, has been a gatherer since the age of eight, which means signatures and collectibles have been in his blood for a long time. He has set up at card appears, purchased, sold and exchanged everywhere throughout the world and has a vested stake in the business. Having been a gatherer who searched out competitors and performers for a mark some time before he brought home the bacon in the leisure activity, Grad says he's enthusiastic about instructing authorities, particularly the individuals who don't have much involvement.
marked baseballsWhile he doesn't walk show floors much any longer since individuals who realize him for the most part start getting some information about individual things they are holding and he can't offer feelings on anything he can just look at for a couple of moments.
Graduate has his heartbeat on what's going on at The National, and some of it should concern authorities and financial specialists.
"It's truly intriguing," moans Grad on the show floor. "I've seen a great deal of stuff that looks genuine, yet it's printed. Speck lattice printers, yes. Two Babe Ruth things today, and a Princess Di yesterday."
He said that one of the Ruth signatures resembled a pencil, yet after looking into it further, it was finished with a printer.
Graduate is the principle authenticator for Beckett Media and business at the organization's corner has been lively.
Having gone to card shows and visited shops for an incredible duration, Grad offers a few bits of exhortation, for card appears, yet in addition for purchasing on the web.
"Purchase confirmed item," is his first proposal. "Try not to purchase modest and utilize presence of mind."
Steve Grad of Beckett Authentication and Pawn Stars.
Graduate said an aspect of his responsibilities is to point out fakes and individuals who bring home the bacon making and selling them, yet he says it's likewise significant for authorities to learn as much as they can about the signature part of the arrangement before committing a possibly costly error.
"I would rather not see authorities get injured. It's an ideal opportunity to instruct yourself and be cautious what you purchase."
With the fakes he's seen for the current week in Chicago and at other ongoing shows, Grad is stressed.
"It's deteriorating and more regrettable and gatherers, you must be cautious. The counterfeiters are continually going to be a stage ahead. They think simply like authenticators, or I do."
Graduate said the issue with famous competitor's and star's marks being faked has consistently been an issue, however now it's seeping down to progressively mid-level celebs. He said that a few counterfeiters are staying "gauge." That implies they are manufacturing any semblance of Ken Boyer and Norm Cash. Prominent or surely understood competitors who may have passed away during the 1970s and 80s don't draw in as much doubt. It's simple for a decent falsifier to locate an old baseball and phony an expired player's signature.
It's additionally a major issue with Presidential marks on games things.
"Fans need to purchase deals. They need to purchase low and that is the point at which they stumble into difficulty. Balls with Obama or Trump on it, start at $1000. That stuff is worth quite a lot of cash. The falsifiers couldn't care less about you, me or the business."
Graduate, additionally surely understood as the signature authenticator on the hit TV appear, Pawn Stars, has been a gatherer since the age of eight, which means signatures and collectibles have been in his blood for a long time. He has set up at card appears, purchased, sold and exchanged everywhere throughout the world and has a vested stake in the business. Having been a gatherer who searched out competitors and performers for a mark some time before he brought home the bacon in the leisure activity, Grad says he's enthusiastic about instructing authorities, particularly the individuals who don't have much involvement.
marked baseballsWhile he doesn't walk show floors much any longer since individuals who realize him for the most part start getting some information about individual things they are holding and he can't offer feelings on anything he can just look at for a couple of moments.
Graduate has his heartbeat on what's going on at The National, and some of it should concern authorities and financial specialists.
"It's truly intriguing," moans Grad on the show floor. "I've seen a great deal of stuff that looks genuine, yet it's printed. Speck lattice printers, yes. Two Babe Ruth things today, and a Princess Di yesterday."
He said that one of the Ruth signatures resembled a pencil, yet after looking into it further, it was finished with a printer.
Graduate is the principle authenticator for Beckett Media and business at the organization's corner has been lively.
Having gone to card shows and visited shops for an incredible duration, Grad offers a few bits of exhortation, for card appears, yet in addition for purchasing on the web.
"Purchase confirmed item," is his first proposal. "Try not to purchase modest and utilize presence of mind."
Steve Grad of Beckett Authentication and Pawn Stars.
Graduate said an aspect of his responsibilities is to point out fakes and individuals who bring home the bacon making and selling them, yet he says it's likewise significant for authorities to learn as much as they can about the signature part of the arrangement before committing a possibly costly error.
"I would rather not see authorities get injured. It's an ideal opportunity to instruct yourself and be cautious what you purchase."
With the fakes he's seen for the current week in Chicago and at other ongoing shows, Grad is stressed.
"It's deteriorating and more regrettable and gatherers, you must be cautious. The counterfeiters are continually going to be a stage ahead. They think simply like authenticators, or I do."
Graduate said the issue with famous competitor's and star's marks being faked has consistently been an issue, however now it's seeping down to progressively mid-level celebs. He said that a few counterfeiters are staying "gauge." That implies they are manufacturing any semblance of Ken Boyer and Norm Cash. Prominent or surely understood competitors who may have passed away during the 1970s and 80s don't draw in as much doubt. It's simple for a decent falsifier to locate an old baseball and phony an expired player's signature.
It's additionally a major issue with Presidential marks on games things.
"Fans need to purchase deals. They need to purchase low and that is the point at which they stumble into difficulty. Balls with Obama or Trump on it, start at $1000. That stuff is worth quite a lot of cash. The falsifiers couldn't care less about you, me or the business."
Wednesday, 18 September 2019
Steve Grad from Beckett Talks About His Experience at the National
Steve Grad from Beckett Authentication Services spoke with Kelsey Schroyer at the 2018 National Sports Collectors Convention about the incredible demand for authentication and his thoughts on the first few days of the event.
Star Wars Celebration 2019: Autograph Authentication with Steve Grad
If you know autographing, then you will know Beckett. Also, if you know Pawn Stars then you will know Steve Grad. In this Interview Greig talks to Steve about the Celebration, how Beckett Authentication works and many other things.
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