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What is with the second Dr. Gordon Meet The Beatles LP at Heritage tomorow?

Yesterday I started a thread in the Town Square category which was just meant to deal with the general issue of liability with respect to letters of authenticity. I used an example from tomorrow's Heritage auction - a signed "Meet The Beatles" (MTB) album.

Having dug a bit deeper, I realise that this album has been auctioned a couple of times recently and has been discussed on AML as well. I think it is definitely worth looking at it again.          

Here is the item link:

http://entertainment.ha.com/itm/entertainment-and-music/beatles-sig...

As you can see, the album has a 1995 Frank Caiazzo letter of authenticity and is offered with an estimate of "$15k and up".

This album was sold by the doctor's family for around $63k in May 2011 and re-sold at RR Auctions for about $120k in March 2014. RR stated that the album was accompanied by full letters of authenticity from PSA/DNA, Roger Epperson/REAL, and Tracks. No mention of Frank's 1995 - why?.

The album was discussed on AML when the 2011 sale took place ("Unknown Band-Signed "Meet the Beatles" Album Surfaces in Antiques Auction, Sells for $63,250", posted 6 June 2011). The images in that thread look a whole lot dirtier than the Heritage images - presumably it has been to the restorers for a wash and brush-up.

Here is the AML link:

http://live.autographmagazine.com/profiles/blogs/unknown-bandsigned...

Quite why the album is being offered yet again with an estimate of "$15k up" and with no mention of the letters of authenticity included in RR's item description is anyone's guess. It may be my eyes, but the image in Frank's 1995 letter also appears to be the "cleaned up" version. Very strange! 

Dr. Gordon apparently had two MTB Albums signed. One was inscribed to him and the other (the album being sold tomorrow) was not. In the 2011 AML discussion people found it odd that the uninscribed album had only surfaced several years after the inscribed one had been sold. With the new Heritage information that the uninscribed one had been authenticated by Frank in 1995 this now seems even odder. It may be that the family had it authenticated in 1995 but why if it was not being sold at the time? They knew where it came from.   

As a side issue, also discussed in 2011, it also seems odd that the doctor didn't get the second MTB inscribed to his son and why George wouldn't have mentioned the doctor's treatment, as he did on another example signed for the doctor.

By the way. the inscribed Dr. Gordon album appears to have sold at Case Antiques for around $75k later in 2011 (after the June AML post). After that it appears to have disappeared into a collection. I would far rather have had that one as there is an actual link to the provenance story.

Phew! Sorry if all that was a bit confusing. I have no vested interest or grudges against any particular auction house or authenticator by the way.

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Wow thanks.
My favourite from tracks then heritage was the Sgt pepper gnome.

Heres one for sale 125 thousand caiazzo store. Mono version signed on the set of the Ed Sulivan show for a lighting tech.

That's 6 mtb us albums. Anymore?
3 mtb to doctor.
1 Louise mtb.
1 on antiques roadshow.
1 for sale Mono us mtb caiazzo.
6 mtb albums

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