Monday, April 22, 2013
MeiGray Suffers a Huge Loss in Its Family: Ryan Folger (1989-2013)
I am very sorry to bring you this sad, sad news from MeiGray.
Ryan Folger, who began working here as an intern from Rutgers University in January 2011, and recently joined our sales department to direct our ebay auctions and sales, died early Sunday morning in North Brunswick, New Jersey, from injuries sustained in an automobile accident.
Ryan was 24.
Ryan, who graduated from Rutgers in June 2011, was a quiet, cheery, wonderful guy. He was a talented high school soccer player and an avid professional soccer fan. In the short time he was a member of the MGG family I know he communicated with a number of you, and I'm confident he enhanced your enjoyment of our hobby.
We are heartbroken here today.
MeiGray will be making a donation in Ryan's name to a charity of his family's choice.
We ask only that all of you remember to drive safely, and follow the automobile laws of our country that might seem annoying, but save lives.
Wednesday, April 3, 2013
Generalizing about Generalizations
Wow, it's been a month ... sorry about that , but it gets busy here as the hockey season heats up.
I want to talk a little about generalizations in the game-worn jersey world. I was having a conversation with a collector at the Northern Virginia Expo last Saturday, an Expo by the way that just finished its Seventh Year and is wonderfully handled by Francis Rady.
In the game-worn jersey generation that proceeded the MeiGray Generation, with team participation and absolute authenticity and serial-numbered tagging to ensure that collectors know exactly when their jersey was worn, generalizations abound.
Assumptions are made based on the available information, the good work done by credible (and the questionable work by not-so-credible) authenticators, and the astute observations of those who have collected the jerseys over the years.
While we believe that all information available can help, it's important that collectors and dealers not assume because something happened to one jersey, it happened to all. Or because something did not happen to one jersey that happened to another, that one jersey contains a problem. Or because something may have happened once, it could have happened 10 times.
That's the most dangerous generalization of all.
My point? When we authenticate jerseys from yesteryear, ones that lack the tracking, documentation, and information of today, we must tread very carefully. Research and information must be considered carefully, and each jersey needs to be examined individually. Because one generalization never fits all.
I want to talk a little about generalizations in the game-worn jersey world. I was having a conversation with a collector at the Northern Virginia Expo last Saturday, an Expo by the way that just finished its Seventh Year and is wonderfully handled by Francis Rady.
In the game-worn jersey generation that proceeded the MeiGray Generation, with team participation and absolute authenticity and serial-numbered tagging to ensure that collectors know exactly when their jersey was worn, generalizations abound.
Assumptions are made based on the available information, the good work done by credible (and the questionable work by not-so-credible) authenticators, and the astute observations of those who have collected the jerseys over the years.
While we believe that all information available can help, it's important that collectors and dealers not assume because something happened to one jersey, it happened to all. Or because something did not happen to one jersey that happened to another, that one jersey contains a problem. Or because something may have happened once, it could have happened 10 times.
That's the most dangerous generalization of all.
My point? When we authenticate jerseys from yesteryear, ones that lack the tracking, documentation, and information of today, we must tread very carefully. Research and information must be considered carefully, and each jersey needs to be examined individually. Because one generalization never fits all.
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