Poll: Sticker Autos or Manufactured Letter Autos?

[drwarf]

Hi. I think this question spans the four big sports, but since hockey is the big board here and this question applies very much considering the abundance of sticker auto products and the ever favorite letter patch autos. While everyone prefers the hard-signed autographs any day of the week, of the options spread across the other products like SP Game Used and UD Black with the manufactured letter patches and the other products that contain sticker-only autographs, which one would you prefer for your collection: letters or stickers? I am bringing up mainly because with everyone maybe a little tired of "fake" letters, I think the autographs (at the least the cleanly signed ones) on the letters is maybe a better option than the slapped on stickers. To each his own of course, just wanted to check the collecting community's opinion on the non-hard-signed autographs we see everywhere in cards now. Thanks:beer:,

Drew


EDIT: Goofed on the polling options. Just reply with your choice. Thanks.

 

[FrozenInferno]

Stickers, at least the players have SOME room to sign a legible autograph. Manufactured letter patches just don't do it for me..

Hard-signed is obviously the best option, but between those two stickers win a rare victory

 

[Triple B]

Stickers...some of those letters look ridiculous when signed. Worse is the "Topps Lazyman" sticker autos on the letters.

People trying to reinvent cards and failing miserably.

 

[cards-gotta-go]

Manufactured letters suck.
Sticker autos suck less... a lot less.

 

[Krakenfan]

I have to admit that I really hate signed stickers, but if i want I a good legible auto it has to come froma sticker. If that is the only thing availible then that is what I take.

 

[drwarf]

Interesting so far. Two points though: sticker autographs are notorious for parts of the signature being cut off, top, bottom, left/right edge. This obviously leads to a lackluster autograph grade. Legible yes, fitting on the sticker, most often not. Secondly, a sticker autograph seems to have the same rubber stamp feel as a manufactured letter. I figured split results, but clearly collectors feel more violated by letters that are not from a jersey than stickers from sheets signed by the hundreds, maybe thousands. It seems people have been getting bad sigs on their letters, but in return I seem to get cut-off sigs on my stickers. Of course, I am biased because my best autograph card in my collection is on a letter, not a sticker. Its worth more than a grand though and stamped 1/1, so I'm happy with it. Maybe if the Letter Marks, Team Marks, and Number Marks were more limited then maybe more respect for them. Oh well.

 

[Don Robertson]

I will throw my hat in on this,but I am kind of biased. I love the auto`ed nameplate cards, but then again I am working on the Black set so I gotta pull for my obsession. Admittedly some of the autos are tough to mke out, such as when it is the letter "I", but then again some players have been creative in thier autos of these and signed all of the way through the letter and others have signed within the open areas around the letters...such as inside an "O" or in the holes of an "R". Meh I just like the look of all of them together.

Don

 

[penguinsrock93]

The manufactured letter patches look terrible when they are signed. The majority of them are all smudged, squished and just darn ugly looking. Give me a sticker auto to that any day.