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Scorpions Album Circa 2003 Is this real

I am not that familiar with the signatures, but hey compare favorably with known ones. would appreciate any feedback

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Permalink Reply by J. Mikael on July 19, 2015 at 2:51am

These are alright. The signatures look to be (in clockwise order) Matthias Jabs, Rudolf Schenker, Klaus Meine, James Kottak and Ralph Rieckermann (who was replaced in 2004).

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Permalink Reply by Bernie on July 19, 2015 at 6:32am

Thank you

Thelast signature is so rushed and short is tough to tell. I thought it was Pawel, just a first name. I"ll look up Rickerman's autos and compare

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Permalink Reply by Bernie on July 19, 2015 at 9:23am

I will go along with Rieckelmann. Found this picture on eBay ( there are 2 and the other one shows his face, so that's as close to proof as it gets without being there) where there is a good match

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Permalink Reply by J. Mikael on July 19, 2015 at 9:25am

Now that you mentioned it, I can see the resemblance to the first part in Pawel's autograph (although I've never seen him sign that way).

I had another look at some things I got signed back in 2003, and I can confirm it's Ralph. Pretty much all look like this, but I have seen nicer signatures from him in more recent times.

The Schenker and Meine autographs are standard, the Jabs is nice (he can be pretty rushed too sometimes), and the Kottak is very rushed.

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Permalink Reply by Bernie on July 19, 2015 at 9:29am

Agree wit the Rieckermann call, here is more proof of the Rieckermann signature posted earlier (I seriously doubt someone went through the trouble of having a Rieckermann impersonator pose for a forged signature, but .........)