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#1 gold333

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Posted 02 February 2025 - 20:52

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These items are fake. I sold these items to a seller a few years ago.

They did not feature the Senna autograph or the A.S. markings.

These have been added on.

These (non-Senna) gloves I received in a very poor condition (dirty and tarnished/damaged). I cleaned them with QnB (24h soak) and remember them well. I remember selling them for 600GBP (advertised as standard 90's OMP gloves, no Senna markings at all).

Another reason they are not Senna used as these are XS size very very small (child size almost) gloves.

I believe these are the 1995 models produced by OMP after Senna's death as they feature the large OMP logo. Senna did not use this version of the glove as in Ricard, Aida and Brazil he used this model glove with the small OMP logo.

 

This is so reminiscent of the FW18 nose cone Armori Steele was trying to sell for 120,000$ as being the FW16A nosecone of Senna's crash, a few years back which I identified:
 

Edited by gold333, 04 February 2025 - 00:23.


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#2 ensign14

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Posted 02 February 2025 - 22:40

Interestingly, Trustpilot only has 4 reviews for the store - all 1 star - yet somehow averages this out to be 2.4.



#3 chdphd

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Posted 02 February 2025 - 23:04

I do not trust Trustpilot



#4 Mark A

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Posted 03 February 2025 - 08:40

 

https://thememorabil... ... s-signed-1

These items are fake. I sold these items to a seller a few years ago.

They did not feature the Senna autograph or the A.S. markings.

These have been added on.

These (non-Senna) gloves I received in a very poor condition (dirty and tarnished/damaged). I cleaned them with QnB (24h soak) and remember them well. I remember selling them for 600GBP (advertised as standard 90's OMP gloves, no Senna markings at all).

Another reason they are not Senna used as these are XS size very very small (child size almost) gloves and obviously the OMP logo is too large for the Estoril test.

I believe these are the 1995 models produced by OMP after Senna's death.

 

This is so reminiscent of the FW18 nose cone Armori Steele was trying to sell for 120,000$ as being the FW16A nosecone of Senna's crash, a few years back which I identified:
 

 

 

Their own original Senna picture on their website shows the OMP logo is wrong vs the gloves.



#5 BRG

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Posted 03 February 2025 - 09:30

 

https://thememorabil... ... s-signed-1

These (non-Senna) gloves I received in a very poor condition (dirty and tarnished/damaged). I cleaned them with QnB (24h soak) and remember them well. I remember selling them for 600GBP (advertised as standard 90's OMP gloves, no Senna markings at all).

 

If they weren't Senna's as is evident, how did you get £600 for them?


Edited by BRG, 03 February 2025 - 16:53.


#6 ensign14

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Posted 03 February 2025 - 16:40

Like how Abramovich bought Chelsea.  Financial basket case made for a quicker buy.  If you're going to flip gloves for a hundredfold profit, whether you pay £60 or £600 is irrelevant.



#7 BRG

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Posted 03 February 2025 - 16:55

Yes but Roman got Chelsea.  He didn't lash out his cash an then find he had bought Molesey Town.



#8 gold333

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Posted 03 February 2025 - 22:45

If they weren't Senna's as is evident, how did you get £600 for them?

This particular model of OMP glove has two types of sellers and buyers. The first type does not know they were used by Senna. They sell them as old nomex racing gloves. The second type does (possibly buying with the intent to create forgeries), and are willing to pay more.

A genuine set of certified Senna used gloves would sell for over 25,000$, possibly much more. Certified by his estate, or Viviane Senna, etc.

There was even that set of red OMP gloves sold as being used by Senna at Adelaide 1991 (donated by or in support of, a mechanics fund I believe). A simple Google search of the GP in question showed that they were the later OMP type (logo colors we know today), while in the GP (and all sessions) he used the earlier inverted OMP logo gloves. The later (current) OMP logo was not even in existence at that GP. Also the logo was the oversized version, which was created late 1993 early 1994. Senna never used the red version of this OMP glove with the oversized logo. 

I was lambasted for pointing it out, the organisers saying the event was for charity, they were sure of the provenance, etc. While it was 100% false.

Having been an insider for the past decades, The Memorabilia Experience company is known for creating fake items. It has a reputation. 

You will never find a single photograph or onboard video (not a single one) of Senna using red OMP gloves with the modern (uninverted) OMP logo in 1989. It did not exist in 1989.

Yet here they are for sale, "signed by Ayrton" no less (also size XS, wrong, as Senna used size medium):

https://thememorabil...d-gloves-signed

It's hilarious. Labelled as 1989. In 1989 Senna OMP gloves did not feature an OMP logo. Let alone the modern (uninverted) colors (introduced late 1991).

It's hard to believe people are paying tens of thousands of dollars for fake items sold for 35$. It should be illegal to con people like this for decades. This company has been in existence for decades.

They'll pull this ad no doubt as soon as they're made aware of this post. Saying things like "We didn't know, of course we value authenticity, our sincerest apologies, etc." Easy to do since they paid 35$ for these gloves and were trying to sell them for tens of thousands.

It would be good to go through their sold inventory listings and contact each buyer to tell them what they actually bought, and bring about class action lawsuits. This is my personal opinion.


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Edited by gold333, 04 February 2025 - 00:27.