Why is authentication important?

With increasingly sophisticated scam artists and forgers, it’s more important than ever to ensure and protect the integrity of physical memorabilia. We’ve taken a proactive stance against fraud. By obtaining items directly from artists, athletes, teams, studios and more on the spot, we are ensuring genuine provenance and are able to virtually eliminate fraud.

How do we authenticate?

Our multi-layered, witness-based authentication process is led by veteran MLB Team Authentication executives. Physical certificates of authenticity have been replaced with digital ones, eliminating vulnerabilities. State-of-the-art covert marking and holographic technologies enable every item we source to be uniquely identified with a first-of-its-kind tamper resistant Gold or Silver label and serial number. These holograms are non-transferable and the serial number’s history can be verified online by anyone. Authentication is the core of our business, and we’re proud to state that no else adheres to the same strict authentication guidelines that we adhere to. In addition to witness-based authentication, we use covert marking and other proprietary layers of authentication to ensure that item provenance can be established and maintained over time. Leveraging new technology such as establishing immutable blockchain provenance and secondary markings will allow us to re-authenticate items indefinitely.

What do the gold and silver authentication holograms mean?

Gold: Guaranteed to be used by an artist or athlete. These items are witnessed and collected directly from the source at a live event where a TRuEST™ Authenticator was present. They never leave an Authenticators line of sight from usage to collection to sale. Only items that undergo this level of scrutiny earn our Gold authentication hologram.

Silver: Guaranteed to be owned by an artist or athlete. These items are received directly from either the artist or athlete themselves, or through highly trusted partners with ties directly to the original source. These are often collected directly from verified archives and estates. While we guarantee all of our items’ quality and legitimacy, we distinguish between these items and our Gold items by marking them with a Silver authentication hologram.