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Beatles autographs - Opinions please

Any opinions of the authenticity of these early Beatles signatures (with Pete Best) ?

I have noticed them up for sale, and i am interested.

Any opinions/help would be greatly appreciated

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Permalink Reply by Josh Board on December 5, 2011 at 12:25pm

To me, this sheet has a few problems. They all look like they were written in the same hand.

And, for being as old as they'd have to be (since Best is drummer, not Ringo), the ink would look WAAAAY OLDER than it does.

Don't buy.

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Permalink Reply by Steve Cyrkin, Admin on December 5, 2011 at 2:26pm

I think Josh is right on all counts. These are pretty far off known genuine ones I've seen. And the paper is the same kind used for a lot of forgeries these days.

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Permalink Reply by terrier8HOF on December 5, 2011 at 3:24pm

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Permalink Reply by Steve Cyrkin, Admin on December 5, 2011 at 3:40pm

Good job, Terrier! That's what they copied...Pulled right from Frank Caiazzo's feature.

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Permalink Reply by roger epperson on December 5, 2011 at 4:01pm

I saw these the other day and yes they are bad. It is very unusual though for a forger to try this early of a set of Beatles. Note how Pete and Paul wrote Barbie, identical.

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Permalink Reply by lgee on December 6, 2011 at 2:08am

Thanks for replies, thats pretty conclusive!

The item is for sale on Hollywoodmemorabilia.com There's lots of Beatles items for sale on this site (some with PSA certs). Another one that caught my eye was this Paul+Linda Mccartney signed card, although it does not come with PSA cert. Any views on it?

Anyone have any info concerning Hollywoodmemorabilia.com?

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Permalink Reply by terrier8HOF on December 6, 2011 at 4:09am

I just checked out the site. They have a lot of those items on ebay. They do have some items that are good, but there are a lot that look suspiciously like the forgeries that were being sold in droves by one of the companies that was discussed in another thread on this site previously.

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Permalink Reply by Steve Cyrkin, Admin on December 6, 2011 at 5:16am

Hollywoodmemorabilia.com is the same company as sportsmemorabilia.com. It's a consignment shop where you'll find everything from obvious forgeries to unquestionably genuine. They seem to accept consignments without concern about authenticity.