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7 Claptons which is real?

Hi all, I have obtained 7 Eric Clapton autographs through the years and obviously some are not real. I feel good about 1 of these because of the dealer, the rest highly questionable. I obviously need some help, so thanks for looking and value your input. Mark

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Permalink Reply by Steve Cyrkin, Admin on January 19, 2012 at 11:40am

It'll be interesting to get more opinions. I didn't think any of them were Clapton.

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Permalink Reply by GetBeatles on January 19, 2012 at 6:08pm

Here is a laser printed photo and printed autograph that Clapton's office management sent out, I got 3 or 4 of these.. I would think that they would have had Clapton sign 1 real one to be duplicated (perhaps in the thousands) and not duplicate a secretarial... but I can't assume that.. so is this an authentic example?

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Permalink Reply by Steve Cyrkin, Admin on January 19, 2012 at 6:21pm

Yes, I'm sure that's Clapton's autograph. The photo looks too good to be laser printed, tho.

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Permalink Reply by GetBeatles on January 19, 2012 at 6:29pm

yes they do look good, but the tip off was the autographs were exactly positioned the same - ex the bottom of the E runs off all the photos

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Permalink Reply by Steve Cyrkin, Admin on January 19, 2012 at 6:35pm

Mark, sorry...I'm sure they're preprints. You said they were laser printed, which generally look pretty bad. This looks like a lab print or inkjet. I was curious.