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McCartney Signed White Album - Authentic?

Has a PSA sticker but that doesn't always mean it's authentic. Opinions?

https://www.ebay.com/itm/Paul-McCartney-Beatles-White-Album-Signed-...

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Permalink Reply by Classic Rock on December 25, 2018 at 1:45pm

Wow. That’s just totally unacceptable IMHO. It’s even more critical when PSA applies their own matching sticker to their LOA. Without a photo, PSA will have no long-term record of what they have actually authenticated. Thus creating the situation for this kind of a problem.

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Permalink Reply by Steve Cyrkin, Admin on December 25, 2018 at 2:11pm

PSA tags everything they authenticate with an invisible daub of synthetic "DNA" that is only visible in a certain frequency laser light. If it doesn't have that, they didn't authenticate it.

You have to send it into them to tell, or I believe you can buy one of the lasers from them.

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Permalink Reply by Eric Keith Longo on December 25, 2018 at 2:21pm

Would that be free or for a fee to know of this DNA tag? I recall a while back talk about who the heck can see it w/o the proprietary laser - what good is it really in the everyday real world. Nice gimmick, I guess.

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Permalink Reply by Steve Cyrkin, Admin on December 25, 2018 at 2:34pm

It's not a gimmick. It's so they can verify it when sent to them. They really should keep an image of every autograph and make them available with cert verification but neither PSA, JSA or BAS do that for COAs unless you ask.

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Permalink Reply by Eric Keith Longo on December 25, 2018 at 2:54pm

To me anyway, for some tech that apparently no one but they can use, it seems "gimmicky". I have not heard of it being used, not by someone on our end or the game. It would be very helpful, like the photo database already under discussion. They certainly mention it enough. "DNA" sounds so ...safe in a CSI sort of way. I wonder if they actually charge a fee to establish if they have authenticated something. My .02.

Permalink Reply by Steve Cyrkin, Admin on December 25, 2018 at 3:21pm

Eric,

A big reason the don't make the lasers commonly available, and I don't actually think that many at all are out there, is that just making them easily available would lead to sleazoids making their own scam versions and use them to defraud collectors en masse.