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Dubious examples up for auction....

I often have a look for Beatles' autographs that are coming up for sale in the UK. I usually focus on the provincial auction houses in the (invariably vain) hope of getting a bargain.

It depresses me how many of these auction houses seem to make no effort to verify what they sell.

Here are three examples of items being sold by Adam Partridge. Each seems to have solid provenance (obtained by Freda Kelly's assistant etc.) but to me all three are dubious to say the least.

Am I right?

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Permalink Reply by James Stone on October 29, 2016 at 4:48am

Yeah, all bad.

Its not even close.

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Permalink Reply by Nate on October 29, 2016 at 5:14am

Had a very bad experience with Adam Partridge auction house and would never use them again. Short story is they lost pieces after auction without informing the buyers (buyers had to chase up before they would admit pieces were missing/stolen) and they wouldn't refund on fake autographs even with expert opinion. They may offer some genuine items but with their completely terrible after sales service (IMHO) I wouldn't go near them, and allowing more fakes through their sales just confirms this for me.
Rant over!

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Permalink Reply by Paul Johnston on October 29, 2016 at 9:02am

How can any so called "auction house" look at these and decide to allow them for sale. It says a great deal for this one that they have. Ridiculous..

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Permalink Reply by Beatleworld on October 29, 2016 at 9:23am

Ok, first 2 sets have been signed by Freda or another fan club secretary, the 3rd is an authentic set all signed by John, The "all the best from the
The Beatles" bit is in his hand too, signed in mid-1963....hope this helps.