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Anyone familiar with Tamino Autographs?

I just bought an autographed carte-d-vis of British actress Ellen Terry from Tamino Autographs. It's a beautiful image with a nice bold signature. I'm very pleased.

Tamino has many interesting items. Just wondering if anyone has bought anything from Tamino?

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Permalink Reply by Eddy on April 13, 2024 at 4:53pm

I've done a bit of selling myself (mostly to fuel my hobby funds). Many people I have dealt with were looking for a particular signer they had an interest in. For some, as we corresponded a bit more, I found they had zero interest in ever potentially acquiring another autograph from anyone else.

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Permalink Reply by Scott Paul on April 13, 2024 at 5:12pm

I have only sold a very items over the years. I always suffer from seller's remorse. I have tons of autographs I tell myself I should sell to downsize. I make piles to sell then a few days later look them over and suddenly there is no pile left because I changed my mind. I am picky today what I buy it has to be either one I really need for a collection or a substantial upgrade of an autograph I already own.

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Permalink Reply by Eddy on April 13, 2024 at 5:16pm

The conundrums of a true autograph collector! :-)

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Permalink Reply by Eric Keith Longo on April 14, 2024 at 7:23am

" a person needs to be very well informed and knowledgeable on the autograph"

Yes, well, I think that could be said of Taminos'! They do what Eddy showed, but can't navigate secretrials and forgeries of Crawford, Davis, Burton, Carney and whatever all else I posted? That seems odd to me.

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Permalink Reply by Scott Paul on April 14, 2024 at 7:58am

Takes "buyer beware" to the extreme shopping on there I think.

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Permalink Reply by Eric Keith Longo on April 14, 2024 at 8:23am

Indeed! I prefer to cast my line in clearer waters. And, good morning Scott :-)

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Permalink Reply by Eric Keith Longo on April 13, 2024 at 3:42pm

And these?

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Permalink Reply by Eddy on April 14, 2024 at 8:53am

I'm still going to stay with the word I used earlier....confounding. There are two signers they have that I am rather familiar with and they have some signed pieces of each. One of the real ones I had seen some time ago offered by a dealer in France and I had no question as to it's authenticity. I almost bought it at the time but simply kept it in a cart. I was really surprised to see it now appear for sale on Tamino.

In both instances of these signers, there are what strongly look to me to be real ones and also rather apparent secretarials & outright forgeries. It seems all mixed up. I don't quite get it unless he really doesn't know autographs well and just puts up whatever to see what people bite on.

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Permalink Reply by Eric Keith Longo on April 14, 2024 at 9:07am

I think your last statement likely Eddy. Other explanations seem a a stretch IMO. I would expect all sources, good, bad or both, to have some good material. Very few, perhaps oh...a Rock n Roll collection/site, will be composed of entire runs of forgeries.

The "self-confirming website and sales thing" has been done before the Bowie craziness, and those folks seem to get outed one way or another, sooner or, as in the case I am thinking of, later.

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Permalink Reply by Eddy on April 14, 2024 at 9:12am

Here's their blog. Looks like they were recently at the NY Antiquarian Book Fair:

https://www.taminoautographs.com/blogs/autograph-blog

I do know dealers who are vendors there annually who are top notch. I guess perhaps others not so much do as well.

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Permalink Reply by Eric Keith Longo on April 14, 2024 at 9:33am

I went to that event a few times in years past. I will now borrow your word if I may - confounding. It is perfect. It might appear they have (some?) good higher end material and a lot of lower stuff including the bad material I posted here as well from looking at that blog and the images. I would be interested to see what lies between those two categories. I do remember at that book fair there were a lot of...things you and I would never consider. People here call it a "mixed bag", but I do also believe there are dealers and some houses that will try to sell whatever they can sell. That very bad gold ink "Keith Richards", the "Crawford" or the "Art Carney" really are...confounding. I have seen decent folk miss the secretarial Davis, but all the rest...how that happens here I can't know.