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Permalink Reply by Steve Cyrkin, Admin on December 14, 2011 at 7:05pm

Rajeev,

I hate being the bearer of bad news so much, but the autographs on at least three of your albums are definitely forgeries in my opinion. I don't know Neil Diamond, so I can't opine on it.

• Your Pink Floyd album has the dreaded "PINE FLOYO" version of Nick Mason's "Pink Floyd" logo. American Royal Arts and the other notorious galleries from Florida to Arizona to Vegas to Hawaii sold these in huge numbers.
• On your Traveling Wilburys album, I recognize common forgeries of George Harrison and Bob Dylan. If they're bad the others undoubtedly are too.
• Besides being way off, all the autographs on your Pink Floyd "The Wall" album look like they were signed by the same person. 

With any luck, the people who sell these things will eventually be arrested, convicted and sent to prison as more and more collectors realize they've been scammed and file police reports. I recommend that you do so.

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Permalink Reply by Rajeev Jain on December 16, 2011 at 11:51am

Hello,

I just got this reply from the person who sold the Pink Floyd - The Wall LP. A straight up guy, I believe. Had a long chat with him. He is confident of this LP and stand behind the authenticity and will give a full refund, should I choose. Please find below a reply relevant to the LP in question :

Dear Rajeev
Good to speak today

On to Pink Floyd the Wall  
purchased at Brighton record fair from a father of one of the school children of islington green school , i also checked the signatures against others from that time of the Floyd .
other signatures from memory included gerald scarfe (married to jane Asher)backing vocalists Bruce Johnston (of which i have a signed beach boys lp by him )joe chemey,john joyce and others,
to say they were all done in the same hand is a surprise to me considering so many were signed for the school children of islington green school and as i also purchased beach boys lp signed by Bruce Johnston i had no reason to question its authenticity like i do with so many other signed lps
best wishes
MARK HAYWARD

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Permalink Reply by 029r4yc06b4rr on December 16, 2011 at 4:29pm

Im afraid i must agree with Steve. The Bob Dylan is definetly a forgery that i have seen numerous times. I can also speak for the David Gilmours on the two floyd albums. Those definetly did not come from Gilmour in my opinion. Sorry for the bad news but at least you can get your money back. Chris

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