Band-Signed Beatles Album Census and Price History 2016

It's been 5 years since we published our first Band-Signed Beatles Album Census.

It's time to update it!

A history of full-band-signed Beatles album prices would be hugely helpful to the marketplace as well, going back as far as we can, so let's build that, too. Not just from auctions, but reports from collectors and dealers who have sold them.

For starters, please read the 2011 Census, which had a few years of updating and other input added by collectors and dealers.

Add your research and commentary to this discussion for now, and as we get more data, we'll post two separate discussions to fine tune it. Once we feel comfortable with the information we have and what we have determined, we'll publish reports that will help collectors and dealers worldwide make better educated decisions on Beatles album sales and purchases.

These are the results of the 2011 census:

US Release Band-Signed Beatles Albums

0 “Introducing the Beatles” [Added to list on Sept. 16, 2019]

6-7 “Meet the Beatles”
2 “Help”
1 “Beatles 65”
1 “Beatles VI”
0 “Rubber Soul”
2 “Revolver”
0 “Magical Mystery Tour”
0 “Abbey Road” +1 offered by Autographs for Sale on eBay starting Mar. 16, 2019
0 “Yellow Submarine”
1 “White Album” +1 sold by Tracks in Nov/Dec 2013 for $186,000; +1 more signed for the same person who got the other 2 signed (added 3/13/19)
1 “Sgt. Pepper’s Lonely Hearts Club Band”
0 “Let it Be”

17 US Albums Known 

UK Release Band-Signed Beatles Albums
Roughly 75 “Please Please Me” (Their first album, signed in three 1963 UK promotional tours)
16-21 “With the Beatles” (The tail end of their easier accessibility) [Editor's Note: 1 since April 2011 added.]
8-10 “Hard Day’s Night”
3 “Beatles for Sale”
2 “Help”
1 “Rubber Soul” +1
1 “Revolver”
5 “Sgt. Pepper’s Lonely Hearts Club Band” +1 sold by Bonhams on June 30, 2016
0 “Magical Mystery Tour” (All reissues from the 1980s and up.)
0 “White Album”+1 UK (sold to collector in the US)
0 “Yellow Submarine”
2 “Abbey Road”
0 “Let it Be”

Roughly 113-120 UK Albums Known (38-45 plus roughly 75 “Please Please Me” albums)

Let's do it!

Tags: beatles album, census, history, price

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Permalink Reply by Paul on July 8, 2016 at 8:22pm
Is this in the census, Wtb.
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Permalink Reply by KarlKeaton on July 8, 2016 at 8:43pm
You don't see many of those! Despite it's obvious problems I really like this piece. Despite the problems associated with front signed laminated album covers the signatures being on a white background gives them contrast combined with the fact that it just looks good having the signatures with the front cover picture.
Permalink Reply by Paul on July 8, 2016 at 8:48pm

Caiazzo has a stronger one for sale.

Permalink Reply by Paul on July 8, 2016 at 8:52pm
Wtb.
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Permalink Reply by KarlKeaton on July 8, 2016 at 8:53pm
I've recently moved abroad and only just regained practical Internet access so I haven't check his Website for a while. I'll check it out later, cheers.
Permalink Reply by Paul on July 8, 2016 at 8:56pm

Where in the world do you live? One lp is 40k and the other 50k us.

Permalink Reply by KarlKeaton on July 8, 2016 at 8:59pm
I'm living out in the boondocks in Thailand now.
Permalink Reply by Steve Cyrkin, Admin on July 8, 2016 at 10:29pm

I don't know. I'd need to know its sales history.

Permalink Reply by tony brown on July 8, 2016 at 10:36pm

Hi Steve! I purchased the framed Post card in London in 2000.

Permalink Reply by Paul on July 8, 2016 at 9:04pm
What in the world are you doing over in Thailand?
The Beatles is where the money is.
Permalink Reply by KarlKeaton on July 8, 2016 at 9:08pm
It's my solution to the EU in/out dilemma. I've been married to a Thai woman for 25 years so it's been home from home for a long time now.

You are right that it's not exactly Beatles Central, the villagers like "I Saw Her Standing There" though!
Permalink Reply by Thorsten Knublauch on July 15, 2016 at 12:06am

Hi - there are 2 Rubber souls known. One from Dec 65 and another one signed during the Mad Day out in 68.

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