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Beatles Magical Mystery Tour set- copy?

There are a lot of great items available at auction this next week and I recognize most of them from the last 20 years but this new one on R&R has got me doubting myself and could use some help.

It looks great but a little too familiar... anyone remember this one that was signed for the boy in the opening scene of the movie that sold at Bonhams like 5 years ago and again at Gotta Have It last year...

Is it possible that these were signed immediately after each other? There are extremely subtle differences in each signature but they are 99.9% identical. I would love to hear your thoughts.

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Permalink Reply by Richard624 on August 4, 2018 at 2:19pm

The Omega auction description was similar.

Wonder what happened to the other two pictures. I only got two.

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Permalink Reply by Steve Cyrkin, Admin on August 6, 2018 at 8:16pm

Ballroom, do you have the four provenance photos?

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Permalink Reply by Ryan on August 6, 2018 at 8:53pm

They weren’t actual photos. Just screen grabs from the opening scene of the movie.

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Permalink Reply by Steve Cyrkin, Admin on August 6, 2018 at 9:18pm

Thanks, Ryan.

Permalink Reply by BallroomDays67 on August 6, 2018 at 9:23pm

Were they screen grabs? That's odd. In any case, I haven't seen them.

Permalink Reply by Steve Cyrkin, Admin on August 4, 2018 at 2:19pm

If it was consigned by the person who got it signed as a boy it prob would have said that. It's a good sign that it didn't say that, considering it was sold before.

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Permalink Reply by Eric Keith Longo on August 4, 2018 at 1:12pm

Someone said something about how differences show in this year, or not, and I think 2 folks have spoken to and/or shown that. I would also be interested in seeing a comparison of size from signature to corresponding signature on the whole. As also asked today but I can't find it, better overlays might be useful. If I can I will make some.

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Permalink Reply by Ryan on August 4, 2018 at 1:27pm

My primary interest in this set 5 years ago was the sheer size of George’s signature. I have never seen one (or two!) so big.

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Permalink Reply by Eric Keith Longo on August 4, 2018 at 1:32pm

Very interesting - unusually large, on both and to the same % for each? Hmm.

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Permalink Reply by Ryan on August 4, 2018 at 1:38pm

Exactly. Just looking at the spacing on the two pieces makes me believe Richard’s is the original. Just looks more original. George saw the size of Johns and signed his the same size. The RR one you can’t tell the order, they’re all just bunched together.