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Permalink Reply by Carl Ryan on February 18, 2013 at 2:42am

I dont know who Backstage Autographs from Australia is run by, but they are selling some horrid forgeries. And by claiming that this item was signed IP on their COA, they are guilty of selling known forgeries. 

Coincidentally, its odd that they picture actually contains better forgeries than the guitar by far. The sigs on the guitar arent even ballpark, but it looks like the forger got much better on the picture. I suppose its possible that these are even real sigs on the pic, but i highly doubt it. The skull and bones is much closer to Slash's style than the guitar, but the formation of his name seems all wrong and scrunched together. Plus, if Slash was signing in a hurry, which if real, this would obviously be a rushed sig, i feel confident that Slash wouldnt draw the skull. Thats just not something he does when rushed, in fact he rarely does it period. MJ i am not the best on, the guitar jumps out as obviously bad to me, and again on the pic, the signatures is fathoms closer than on the guitar. But it still looks sloppy and lacks the typical MJ flow to me. I suppose the pic could be real, but i would be very surprised. The guitar however i feel very confident is fake.

What are your opinions?

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Permalink Reply by Rich on February 18, 2013 at 7:36am

Not to be mean spirited, but does anything good ever come out of Australia?  While US and UK certainly have more than their share of forgery problems, at least there is a plethora of good sources to get authentic items from.  Seems like with autographs out of Australia, you don't have a prayer.

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