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Permalink Reply by Peter C. on May 30, 2013 at 11:30am

My opinion (again - I´m not pro!)

ANATO - fakes.
Brian May - is it even supposed to be presented as autograph???? It has no relation to BM´s handwriting... and I would not call it even as fake... This has NOTHING to do with Brian May!

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Permalink Reply by DUST-MAN AKA DUSTIN MILLER on May 30, 2013 at 11:56am

I GOT BRIAN MAY & ROGER TAYLOR ON A FEW AND THEY LOOK NOTHING AT ALL LIKE THIS DOES. NOT EVEN CLOSE

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Permalink Reply by QueenMuseum Queencollector on May 30, 2013 at 1:22pm

have no doubt that Roger and John are good and typical 1975-76 signatures.. Freddie.. I would need a better inspection, it looks fine in some of his aspects  but I didn't expect to find that signatures togheter with the other two but it could be good.

Brian's photo had a fake on the revers though I would love to have that picture.
This an example of genuine 1976 Freddie autograph.

 

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Permalink Reply by QueenMuseum Queencollector on May 30, 2013 at 1:43pm

yes actually I focused more on the double "d" which is quite unusual but I'd need a better picture .. anyway it's also very different from the usual fakes around and then again no doubt on Roger and John 

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Permalink Reply by QueenMuseum Queencollector on May 30, 2013 at 1:51pm

an this is another example from that era, signed at Tower Records (where they scheduled a promotionan appearance and signing session) in NY before band playing at Beacon Theatre in early 76 (february).

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Permalink Reply by QueenMuseum Queencollector on May 30, 2013 at 2:22pm

Freestone is not an autograph expert, it was Freddie assitant but from late 70's on. I know that early signatures are very uncommon compared to the more linear ones from end of 70's on.. 

Consider that the Queen II one (NY session) was from a signing session so he signed a lot of stuff...

I was contacted recently from a guy in UK who's got a one of the GP cut out but still wait for his reply as I was really interested in that. He won of those in a radio competition back in 87.

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Permalink Reply by QueenMuseum Queencollector on May 30, 2013 at 3:01pm

it's ok no problem... I know that in the autographs world there are aways different opinion.. but what I noticed is that generally there's a poor knowledge in early queen signatures...

probably because they are harder to find and also much hard to fake in my opinion as not yet full defined (especially Freddie) and sometime very ugly.

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Permalink Reply by QueenMuseum Queencollector on May 30, 2013 at 2:56pm

this is from a lady who attended the opening act of the Opera Tour, Liverpool november 75. There were other interesting items in the lot from this girl, pictures with band member, unique recording so this is a 100% genuine item. You can see a still not perfectly drawn "mercury". I took a lot of mistakes in the past,  but now I prefer counting only in my 20+ years experience and no one more... I spoke with people working with them, even earlier than Phoebe and of course they have a different viewing than ourselves. We are collectors we focus on many more aspect than even people working with them.... what I want from them are unique pieces which of course have good provenance... but then I  am the one who decide if it's ok for me or not....  There were nice stuff sold over the years from David Minns, Joe Fannelli collection which features wonderful stuff...

I'm uploading all these photos not for self-celebration..just to let show different examples from an early period which seems quite unknown among autographs collectors..

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Permalink Reply by Tyler Gray on May 30, 2013 at 4:53pm

I like how you guys think everybody signs exactly the same way every time. :-)

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