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ELVIS Front and Back signed german post card.
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Permalink Reply by Steve Cyrkin, Admin on
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What concerns me besides the "B" of Best is that the writing seems to flow more smoothly than I'm used to seeing on Elvis.
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How do you know the one at the top is a Bakker?
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Permalink Reply by Steve Zarelli on
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How does one go about discovering someone named Hans Bakker is an Elvis forger?
Has Hans Bakker been arrested? Is he still producing forgeries?
Just curious...
If only we could get someone to spill the beans on the mass produced sports forgeries. Someone MUST know! So frustrating...
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OK. I'll publish what Roger Epperson wrote on Hans Bakker in our Elvis signature study later today.
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I take that back. I'm not going to be able to get to the archive disks for a couple of days.
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Permalink Reply by john reznikoff on
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http://live.autographmagazine.com/group/authenticationandforgeryale...
look at the entry for 10/5/2010 7:51 am it is the study i did on Hans Bakker.
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Zippy,
Arresting autograph forgers or sellers of forgeries has rarely been a priority. That's changing in some places, like the UK and now the US, but still rare most places.
As for spilling the beans on mass produced music forgeries (not sports), that's been done.
Jerry Gladstone of American Royal Arts (now www.PopCultureVault.com) called me in May 2010 to THANK ME for discovering the fake signing photos we found that were exposed on NBC News 20/20 and Inside Edition.
He told me he was duped by his suppliers: "I'm a victim, too!" He told me who was involved (we already knew) and offered to open up all of his files to us and to be interviewed for Autograph.
What did he want in return? He wanted us to stop writing about him on our websites and take negative things about him down. Why? Because he needed to give his customers refunds for the forgeries he unknowingly sold them from his suppliers, and the articles and blogs about him on our sites were driving him out of business.
If anyone doubts this, I have the phone records that show he called me out of the blue mid-May of 2010.
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Oh...and I asked Jerry Gladstone why he accused me of being anti-Semitic, even though he knew I was Jewish...
He said it was because I was hurting his business.
Can you believe he thought it was a reasonable answer?
Jerry's lucky Jews don't believe in Hell.
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Permalink Reply by Brick Hunter on
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Interesting comparison of the two. There's got to be a lot of genuine material from his years in Germany but there's so much junk too. Everyone thinking about spending the money to buy a genuine Elvis should do their research first and make sure they're comfortable with what they purchase.
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Permalink Reply by Tony Lando on
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Interesting discussion on Elvis signatures. Attached here is the one from my collection.
Click to enlarge:
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Tony,
This will be really interesting. I think yours has a ton of qualities a genuine Elvis has, and I think the go-to people will think it's good. But I don't feel completely comfortable for some reason. I'm not even sure why.
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Steve, that is what makes this hobby so interesting. Unless you get the autograph in person, do we ever really know for sure? I studied Elvis for many years before I bought this one, I feel pretty good about it.
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