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Real mid-64 Early 65 Beatles Autographs?

Greetings - have really enjoyed wandering through the forum discussions and reading the pro/cons of exemplars - has been extremely educational. Anyway - I'm looking at a signed book - The True Story of the Beatles - published mid 1964 - the signatures look to my relatively untrained eye to be temporally appropriate - but I thought I'd avail myself of the tremendous experience / expertise of this group - are they authentic?

thanks in advance for your time

Steve

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Permalink Reply by KarlKeaton on June 7, 2013 at 10:44am

They look fake to me at a glance but better than most fakes. I must admit though that the George has me in two minds, if it had been with other authentic signatures I'd possibly be happy with it.

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Permalink Reply by terrier8HOF on June 7, 2013 at 12:52pm

the George throws me too. I am wondering if he may have signed it, and someone forged the others to make it a complete set?

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Permalink Reply by KarlKeaton on June 7, 2013 at 1:33pm

I rate that as a possibility.

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Permalink Reply by Chris Piazza on June 7, 2013 at 1:33pm

I agree totally it seems as though the George is authentic, and the other 3 were forged to make it complete

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Permalink Reply by Steve Cyrkin, Admin on June 7, 2013 at 1:56pm

I think they're all traced, with Paul's signature reflected on the page at an angle by mistake, which caused the right slant. Interesting. I hope Roger will share his thoughts.

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Permalink Reply by KarlKeaton on June 7, 2013 at 2:00pm

To me the bottom three look like outright forgeries rather than process distorted authentic template signatures.

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Permalink Reply by BallroomDays67 on June 7, 2013 at 2:08pm

The George looks authentic to me, while the other three appear to have been printed onto the page.

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Permalink Reply by Xperttexpert on June 7, 2013 at 6:27pm

i think all are good fakes. just my opinion.

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Permalink Reply by Devon Laney on June 7, 2013 at 7:45pm

Steve, I agree with you in that these look traced. These are not original or authentic signatures from the Fab Four.

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Permalink Reply by Steven Tanis on June 7, 2013 at 9:22pm

this is a book my brother has and he brought it over for me to look at and post stuff for you - the John and Ringo signatures are felt tip pen on absorbant paper and you can see ink on the other side of the page where pen placement occurs multiple times - where letters join - the Paul signature is ballpoint pen and you can see indentations on the page

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Permalink Reply by spaceman on June 7, 2013 at 11:35pm

Nearly all of the Beatles sets signed in different pens are fake. My opinion of course. Is there a provenance stating when and where they were signed etc?