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What do you guys think?

Real deal? Or gifted forger?

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Permalink Reply by Steve Cyrkin, Admin on July 29, 2012 at 8:48pm

I gave my opinion and posted examples why I thought so. Maybe I'm wrong and if it turns out I am, sorry.

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Permalink Reply by Steve Cyrkin, Admin on July 29, 2012 at 8:58pm

BTW, I still don't think the album is good.

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Permalink Reply by Steve Cyrkin, Admin on July 29, 2012 at 9:45pm

Mike,

You clearly were at that signing...no question there. I'm just not convinced that album was.

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Permalink Reply by Steve Cyrkin, Admin on July 29, 2012 at 8:56pm

I have no intention of deleting it.

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Permalink Reply by Bjarne Soderholm on July 30, 2012 at 6:01pm

I just re-read the whole article in Autograph Magazine and Steve Grad stated that he got both the guitar and the poster signed at the same meet and greet in 2008. There is even pictures of him together with the band memebers in the article, so we know that he met the band.

These are good and so is Mike Arings. But I have still concernes about the original posted picture.

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Permalink Reply by Trapper9990 on July 28, 2012 at 8:26pm

I definetly could be wrong on this, but their is just something that bothers me about this piece. Its not that any one look terribly off, its just my gut feeling is that this is a very good attempt at their signatures.

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Permalink Reply by JXE on July 29, 2012 at 1:01pm

I get that feeling with Kirk more than the others. It looks to forced to me. I saw Kirk at a meet and greet last year and he signed without even looking and in less than 2 seconds, and they all come out looking very very close, but very smooth. This one looks a little too precise for me.

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Permalink Reply by A.B. on July 29, 2012 at 1:44pm

After further review of the sellers items I also come to the conclusion that these are most likely good fakes.

The sellers ebay name is dj-holdings and he seems to be buying his stuff from ebay seller king.benny

Both are located in the UK

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Permalink Reply by Bjarne Soderholm on July 29, 2012 at 2:17pm

The biggest give away that the autographs in not genuine is actually the pressure of the pen. If you compare to the album that Mike got signed with a silver pain pen, you will see that Mikes Metallica autographs (Kirk and Lars) have different pressure during the autograph. I have some in my collection that also have the different pressure in the signature during the autograph. On the picture it looks like the same pen pressure during the whole autograph. And that is very hard to acomplish if you are signing a magazine picture unless you are sitting at a table. And still then it will be hard to have the same pressure during the whole autograph.

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Permalink Reply by A.B. on July 29, 2012 at 2:52pm

Thanks, Bjarne, this sounds very reasonable.

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Permalink Reply by Bjarne Soderholm on July 29, 2012 at 5:21pm

What I try to say is that if you look on the first autograph from Kirk, the pressure looks even and the ink have flown even thru the whole autograph. If you look at the autograph that Mike got, the ink is not even thru the whole Kirk autograph. And that is the experience that I have that it's very hard to get a perfect signature. Not to mention 4 perfect signatures from a "big name" group. No matter if it's an instore signing or on the street.