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Permalink Reply by Eric Keith Longo on March 25, 2017 at 1:04am

Sometimes it is Cuban. Sometimes not. Vantage. 

Permalink Reply by Steve Cyrkin, Admin on March 25, 2017 at 9:55am

Someone posted the McCartney guitar Richard Steele was asking about in RACC for opinions. I've reposted the image at the top of this discussion.

Permalink Reply by BallroomDays67 on March 25, 2017 at 10:54am

It's another "High In the Clouds" guitar.

Permalink Reply by BallroomDays67 on March 28, 2017 at 11:09am

Steve C. sent me an image of a Macca "signed" guitar from Pristine Auctions and I was able to match the signature to one from a copy of "High in the Clouds." Well, I just found a second example from the same auction house. Apparently this goes back to August of last year.

From Pristine Auctions:

The matching signed book was sold by StrawberryWalrus.com.

Permalink Reply by Eric Keith Longo on March 28, 2017 at 11:29am

Well done Ballroom. Any higher red scans of book and  guard?

Permalink Reply by BallroomDays67 on March 28, 2017 at 11:42am

Unfortunately, that's the only scan I have of the book, which is from the Strawberry Walrus site. Here's a link to the Pristine auction listing.

https://pristineauction.com/a608801-Paul-McCartney-Signed-New-Full-...

Permalink Reply by fab432 on March 28, 2017 at 12:27pm

Well well well. This has certainly been an eye opener for me. I would never have guessed that these scanners trace a genuine signature onto multiple items. It's a big business and it's fraud. I wonder how hard it would be to take it to the next level and report this to the police FBI whom I'm sure would be interested in shutting this down. About 10 - 15 years ago I had the RCMP investigate a forger out of New Brunswick. Frank Caiazzo was helping me out and we got that guy shut down. It was a small victory for the good guys!

Permalink Reply by Steve Cyrkin, Admin on March 28, 2017 at 12:49pm

So far we haven't found the same book autograph on more than one guitar.

Permalink Reply by BallroomDays67 on March 28, 2017 at 12:53pm

That's true, and all have been US copies. No UK copies so far.

Permalink Reply by Mr. Steffman on March 28, 2017 at 12:52pm

Fab432, no evidence yet that these people are duplicating or multiplying items at all. Yet to be determined whether they are just cutting these signed pages and physically affixing the original signature to pickguards.

That latest one is another example that aligns with that possibility. You can even see the blue on the pickguard from the book logo, which likely wouldn't be there if they were duplicating the signatures.

Permalink Reply by marc e on March 28, 2017 at 12:54pm

anyone rember operation ballpen

Permalink Reply by BallroomDays67 on March 28, 2017 at 12:59pm

Perhaps Strawberry Walrus would be willing to tell us when the book was sold. The LOA is dated 7/25/16. The book may have been sold after that date.

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