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Permalink Reply by Paul on June 4, 2015 at 12:08pm

Its a shame no authenticator has taken up the baton and ran with nirvana because so many people are buying forged items. 1000 k for a good fake nirvana autograph these days. I really hate seeing so many people being conned. If they can authenticate beatles why not nirvana?

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Permalink Reply by Steve Zarelli on June 4, 2015 at 2:04pm

Why? Because the Beatles had fairly sophisticated full length signatures with plenty of complexities and nuance to "authenticate."

How do you realistically and reliably authenticate child-like block writing?

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Permalink Reply by Paul on June 4, 2015 at 2:29pm

Have to rely on the history of the piece. Some members had nirvana sign in person and you know their authentic graphs so I don't know why they can't get a coa. Well I do know why. I wish someone could weed out the wheat from the chaff a little. Also Dave signing for Chad on early albums puts a spanner in the works.

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Permalink Reply by Paul on June 4, 2015 at 2:48pm

There's a lot of 90s band who sign in block Dinosaur jr, Sonic youth etc J MASCIS signs with a J sometimes.

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Permalink Reply by James Stone on June 4, 2015 at 2:35pm

Yep, exactly. Its two things.

 The plain writing with no complexities, and the fact that he signed differently all the time.

There are just certain people that are just very hard to authenticate, Cobain is one of them. Heath Ledger comes to mind too.

Plus there just aren't that many Nirvana autographs I imagine. The demand is huge, Kurt died young, likely didn't sign all that much. While the demand for Beatles is high, the supply is actually quite high as well. They signed till their hands nearly fell off in 1963.

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Permalink Reply by Paul on June 4, 2015 at 3:05pm

Your bang on James. My concern is authentic nirvana Sig over the years with guys who had them signed, the story will become thinner and thinner as they pass on their albums to their kids. Kinda gets left by the wayside.

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Permalink Reply by Steve Zarelli on June 4, 2015 at 5:43pm

yup. The provenance stories die quickly. So you buy one from a guy you know who is totally reliable and you know he got them in person. Great. Now what about when you want to sell them?

The buyer has to place 100% faith in your second hand story and trust you are not a scam artist.

"Investing" in Nirvana sigs seems like a very risky proposition.

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Permalink Reply by Ger Ryan on June 5, 2015 at 7:17am

Just an update on the guitar pick above. Had a look at the Ebay listing and it was just a pick found on the floor after a gig. Could have been played by Pat Smear or Krist, or dropped by a tech, or by a warmup band if there was one. Even less convinced :P

There was one guy on Picknet years ago who met Kurt backstage and asked him for a pick. He was only a kid at the time so when Kurt gave him the one in his pocket and he saw it was just a generic pick he was a little disappointed. Seeing this, Kurt took the pick and signed it for him. Don't think that pick is for sale though ;)

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Permalink Reply by Paul on June 5, 2015 at 11:15am

The Dunlop pick sold and now it's back on ebay could be from buyer not paying or an endless supply of picks.

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Permalink Reply by Rock G III on June 6, 2015 at 12:55pm

Its still a lie. That guitar pick was faked to looked used, I assume it was faked by a person who never played guitar as the use is completely unreal. I have a guitar pick here i have used heavy for 7 years and it looks less worn than that one.  

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Permalink Reply by Paul on June 6, 2015 at 1:10pm

Authenticity check on this signed promo with letter? Some bloke of American antique roadshow used to own it. But he didn't have it signed.

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Permalink Reply by James Stone on June 6, 2015 at 2:05pm

Piece of Junk. I don't even know much about Nirvana sigs to be honest, but isn't that a modern Grohl signature? He didn't sign like that back then, did he? The Krist just doesn't even look right at all and Kurt's......LOL. Looks like it was signed by someone named KUJ

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