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- Postal card with forged Lou Gehrig autograph
Postal card with forged Lou Gehrig autograph
Object Details
- Description
- Postal card with forged signature of baseball player "Lou Gehrig". Sold as authentic; evidence from a sports memorabilita mail fraud case by US Postal Inspection Service. Carl Meyer was convicted of mail fraud in 2012.
- Display limit: 10 month rotation at 5 fc.
- Display aspect: signature
- Credit line
- 2013.2011.428, Transfer from the United States Postal Inspection Service
- Data Source
- National Postal Museum
- Date
- Before 2012
- Object number
- 2013.2011.428
- Type
- Crime Evidence
- Medium
- paper; ink
- Dimensions
- Height x Width: 3 1/4 × 5 1/2 in. (8.26 × 13.97 cm)
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- On View
- Currently on exhibit at the National Postal Museum
- Topic
- Sports
- Record ID
- npm_2013.2011.428
- Usage
- CC0