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Permalink Reply by Full Time Flipper on May 25, 2016 at 6:50am

i agree its a copy

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Permalink Reply by Chad B on May 25, 2016 at 7:16am

I would consider it a wonderful item with a lot of value. That being said, it would be worth considerably less than the "top copy" kept by the business. This is a copy in a different sense than a Xerox copy. The hand of the artist actually caused this signature, not a machine.

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Permalink Reply by Paul on May 25, 2016 at 1:19pm

Yes i agree, the old carbon copy.

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Permalink Reply by Mike White on June 7, 2016 at 12:57am

I don't know about considerably less. I mean, it's not quite the same as having the signature in his pen, so as an autograph, it's worth less than the top copy.

But as a general piece of memorabilia, this is the "cardholder copy" and that cardholder would appear to be Kurt Cobain. That would mean that, without knowing the full story behind this piece, it would seem that this piece of paper was the property of Kurt Cobain. He touched it, handled it, and possessed it. To many (perhaps outside the autograph community), that means a lot more than something he just signed and handed back to someone else.

The business' copy may bear his live signature, but it can never claim to have been owned by Kurt Cobain. It's not necessarily worth less, it's just a different market, not unsimilar to baseball card collectors who see signatures on the cards as flaws.

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