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Paul McCartney Signed Book. Real?
I am looking to get this Paul McCartney signed book from a book signing in New York in 2005 at Barnes and Noble.
What do you guys think?
The book is a first edition.
Any help would be greatly appreciated.
Many thanks,
Ben
Tags: Beatles, McCartney, Paul, The
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Permalink Reply by BallroomDays67 on
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I don't believe that this is authentic.
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I had seen it before, and have seen a few other bad items from the same seller, including a forged Jim Morrison signature. Many of the signed HITC books contain nice Macca signatures, but the shape of this one looks quite odd.
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Permalink Reply by terrier8HOF on
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at best this is a highly atypical signature, but I would lean towards fake. either way, I would not want it.
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Permalink Reply by Pauline Berry on
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If this is inauthentic this nice new looking first edition book has been defaced. A reasonably pricey thing to mess up and devalue. So many nice old photos ruined by fake signatures that I have seen. I am only studying McCartney's signature at the moment, but I see good things in it. Speed and confidence is good. But risky to buy because it is a truncated modern style signature, thus fewer details to find truth/fault with.
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A number of these books have been defaced with fake signatures. The one in question is still available on Etsy for $500.
Here's a discussion that I started about this book, which you might find interesting:
http://live.autographmagazine.com/forum/topics/high-in-the-clouds-b...
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Thanks for the link BallroomDays, I am reading through it.
Could you possibly post an example of an inauthentic HITC signing? that would be incredibly useful to me.
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The six examples posted at the top of the discussion aren't authentic in my opinion.
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Permalink Reply by Daniel Alayof on
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Agree with Pauline, the autograph looks good with speed and confidence
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The more I look at it the more I like it. It is super speedy though, therefore quite a feat for a forger, such confidence.
I also like the underlying shape which follows all the other examples on the other thread linked above, the "l" loop bottom that joins to the M juts down the lowest, just like it should and I see other examples of this stick formation in the "P" quickly going onto a malformed "a" but constructed just the way his other "a"s in Paul are.
I have only done moderate, but recently more intense, study on Paul's sig, Marilyn Monroe is my area of expertise. However, fraudulent signatures have the same problems no matter whose signature it is. Nearly all fakes look "careful". This is completely careless. A forger would have to really invest in a pile of books (what $40 bucks a shot?) to write so fast and confidently in the perfect spot of this page. If this signature was on a sheet of paper in isolation I would be less impressed - it could be the 50th attempt on paper to achieve this.
So IMO, Sir Paul defaced this first Edition book of his with this super speedy, mass produced-on-the-day signing. He probably did a 100 the same day.
So, risky to buy because anyone doing so would have to go through this discussion each time because the characteristics that mark it's authenticity are only lightly touched upon because of the speed. But I do see they are there.
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Here's another Macca signature from the same seller for comparison:
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