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Permalink Reply by JJ on May 15, 2015 at 8:35pm

Don't worry about the autocorrect. It happens to the best of us!

Incidentally, I was just told this week by someone who owns one of the biggest US auction houses that there are now reports of artists in China who are pulling off Beatles forgeries. Apparently, The Beatles are the number one target of forgers, and he won't touch their autographs with a 10-foot pole unless he's got ironclad proof that they're the real thing.

You may be aware of the Beatles CD box set remaster fakes that came out a few years ago. They were manufactured in China and shipped here to be sold to unsuspecting buyers - for just about the same money as the real sets. There are a lot of articles and videos about how to identify them. Identifying those seems to be easier than identifying what may be a new breed of Beatles autograph forgeries. Hopefully, someone will keep the pressure up on this type of thing and "out" the culprits so that good people don't get screwed.

The more I learn about Joe Long, a master forger from a couple of decades who apparently had everyone fooled, the more I'm thinking about putting together a historical exposé on him. I have plenty of material so far, so doing this may provide some perspective that would help people learn about how scamming is done by a pro. I think that part of the criteria for being a professional forger involves being a veritable sociopath. If you have any info that might help with this endeavor please let me know. As far as I know, Joe Long never had his "day in court," which surely would have meant a substantial guilty sentence of some kind for all the fakes he did. Of course, he mixed good in with the bad, which made him even more dangerous. Like I said - a sociopath.

 

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