Old Auction Article

Found this on the net, sorry if its been posted before:

http://www.edp24.co.uk/lifestyle/beatles_mania_set_to_take_over_bar...

These look to me like Aspinalls. Not sure about the Ringo. Quite funny reading this part though:

Mr Barnes said: “Many autographs purporting to be by the Beatles were actually signed by their road managers who were inundated with thousands of requests and perfected the signatures.

“The important thing in this case is we know they were signed by the guys themselves because they did so in front of Peter Wilde. It is also very unusual that all four signatures feature on a single sheet of paper.”

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Permalink Reply by KarlKeaton on July 29, 2013 at 11:07am

Here's another one. Notice the "Claire Chalkley of Ringwood Auctions said the estimated price reflected the fact that the auction house could not guarantee the authenticity of the signatures."  Which although on the surface is very honest, also covers them from any legal comeback. From the little I can see I doubt that they are authentic! I personally find it hard to believe that they could not easily consult a third party authenticator.

Permalink Reply by BallroomDays67 on July 29, 2013 at 11:31am

I do too. There's no reason why an auction house should be offering a set of Beatles autographs with that kind of uncertainty.  

Permalink Reply by KarlKeaton on July 29, 2013 at 11:29am

Just thinking about the youtube video that I linked to earlier in this thread. I wonder of John, the expert who throws doubt upon the autographs was actually being a shrewd cookie by putting off Fiona, who admitted that without the doubts would have started a bidding war with him, notice how keen he was to give the vendor his card!

Permalink Reply by Lewis Reynolds on July 29, 2013 at 2:46pm

lol..he's probably got them framed up nicely on his wall now!

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