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Permalink Reply by Steve Cyrkin, Admin on January 15, 2023 at 11:26pm

Strong prices! But a Purple Rain signed by Prince and 2 members of the Revolution sold for $73,699 in January 2022:

https://www.rrauction.com/auctions/lot-detail/345430806270739-princ...

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Permalink Reply by Elfar Sigmundsson on January 15, 2023 at 11:37pm

I know. 

But that one is 100% fake in my opinion.

Elfar Sigmundsson 

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Permalink Reply by Steve Cyrkin, Admin on January 16, 2023 at 10:50am

Elfar, do you want to post a discussion on the $73K one and make your case?

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Permalink Reply by Elfar Sigmundsson on January 19, 2023 at 3:10am

I have a LOT of pictures of real Prince signatures over the years.
Starting from the early ones in 1978 and up to the last ones in 1995 that he signed in public.
I also have a few signatures that he did on legal papers after 95.
And my opinion after comparing the Purple Rain sold by RR Auction to the ones
i have in my collection is that all three signatures are fake.
So someone paid 73.000 dollars for a fake signature.
Very unfortunate that it was authorized.
But then again. That same person has authorized a few
Prince signatures before that have been fake as well in my opinion.

So this is a pretty tough business.

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