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How on earth do you authenticate these Kurt cobain items?

Everyone is after a piece of Cobain, here are a number of items that have sold on ebay recently all have been Kurt's own personal belongings.

The cassette sold for over 3k us and the vhs tapes around 2k guitar pick 1000.

The vhs tapes are suppose to be in Kurt's handwriting although the date is around the wrong way for an American. The cassette is suppose to have recordings of Cobain on it. The guitar pick is meant to be used at Mtv 93 concert.

How on earth are you suppose to authenticate these items?

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Permalink Reply by Paul on May 30, 2015 at 9:21pm

A friend got the pick for this person there's the evidence.

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Permalink Reply by Rock G III on May 31, 2015 at 7:34am

evidence? lmao its a picture of guitar pics that may be the same color. I am certain they made hundreds of thousands if not million in that color.

As a guitar player I can tell you that the wear on that guitar pic is unnatural. Did Kurt rub the tip on concrete for a few hours?

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Permalink Reply by Rich on May 31, 2015 at 8:19am

Looks like there are four picks in the photo of Kurt, yet that one pick looks like it's the only one the guitar player ever used in his life.

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Permalink Reply by James Stone on May 31, 2015 at 8:26am

Exactly, that's a pic that would have been used for a couple of months, not one used for one show.

A Nirvana fans best bet is to get siguatures from Dave, Krist, Chad, and Pat, or anyone else associated with Nirvana and call it a day. Forget Kurt, the stuff heavily forged, very expensive, and very difficult to authenticate (since Kurt always signed differently).

Sure I'd love something signed by Ben Franklin but I don't have $20K. I can get something signed by his son for $400. Its still got the story and the association, and the Franklin name. Sometimes you just have to let certain things go.

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Permalink Reply by Nate on May 31, 2015 at 8:40am

A wise authenticator (I won't name names) once told me (after being stung a couple of times on Nirvana pieces) if you want to purchase a Kurt autograph then you need to buy it on an official document or have cast iron proof (whatever that may be?!?).

I still believe a persons best bet is one of their 1991 signed newsletters (expensive but not outlandish). If you compare his autograph on those you can see how wildly he varied it just within the space of a few weeks.

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Permalink Reply by James on May 31, 2015 at 6:28pm

Sounds like the 1990s grunge equivalent of JFK! Lol.

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Permalink Reply by Paul on June 1, 2015 at 12:15am

That would be a safe bet Nate the news letter signed.

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Permalink Reply by Brian on May 31, 2015 at 3:49pm

I can't find an article to reference, but I'm (almost) positive that I heard a story that right before the unplugged taping, Kurt decided to play the set using a coin (a quarter, I assume) for a pic. He even gave one to Pat. Listening to the recording, I can hear it. So, I don't think I'm making it up.

This has no bearing on the authenticity issue. Just sharing a fanboy story. I'm sure the roadie hung the Dunlop Tortex .60mm as usual. But yeah, you can see the pic logos in the photo. I don't see how that'd get rubbed off in one show.

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Permalink Reply by James Stone on May 31, 2015 at 6:37am

Said it before and I'll say it again, people looking for Cobain stuff need to give up. Huge fan of Nirvana, huge autograph collector, wouldn't touch Cobain stuff with a 10 ft pole. Unless of course there is photo proof of it, but in the majority of those cases, people want $50K or something ridiculous.

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Permalink Reply by Paul on May 31, 2015 at 1:43pm

A lot of nirvana autograph remain in collectors circles because it's my understanding the authenticators don't like to touch them.
There's people who also collect vhs tapes of nirvana shows and put them onto dvd, but I would go as far to say the ones in pictures are Cobains with his hand writing.
A least you have a chance buying nirvana autographs, a guitar pick crazy.
I'm expecting my third nirvana autograph this morning in the mail. They are out there like everything just do some due diligence when buying. The industry is rife with forgeries.