Signed postcard from around 1963 or 1964 - from Hamburg

Hi there,

just received a signed postcard from an old record/vinyl collector who says he got this 40 years ago but not in person.

Please take a look...at least the postcard seems funny enough and comes definitely from this era.

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Permalink Reply by Eric Keith Longo on September 22, 2020 at 11:53am

I don't like it. Here is one from BAS. Your is a different color and crop and appears a copy photo to me.

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Permalink Reply by Eddy White on September 22, 2020 at 12:00pm

Hi Eric, to be honest I didn't ask to see the back of this card. Probably it is just a copy of the postcard you have send me as a sample. The guy who is selling it told me that the signatures are real and even Fredi Fascher from the Hamburg days told him this could be the real thing...

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Permalink Reply by Eric Keith Longo on September 22, 2020 at 12:02pm

Let's see what Ballroom says. He will have much more to say than I.

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Permalink Reply by BallroomDays67 on September 22, 2020 at 3:49pm

The signatures don’t look authentic to me either, and I also have never seen this image on a postcard from that time.

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Permalink Reply by Samuel Mumenthaler on September 22, 2020 at 12:30pm

These coloured photos were much larger than a postcard size, even larger than a 10 X 8" photo. I once owned a nice signed example of these, formerly in the possession of Don Andrews from Remo Four and offered for sale by Tracks way back in the early 90s. So if your seller says these are on a postcard, avoid! The autographs themselves don't look THAT bad, but they look like later examples. Have my doubts, though...

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Permalink Reply by Eric Keith Longo on September 22, 2020 at 12:33pm

Whoever made this just about cut John's ear off as well as a flower!

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Permalink Reply by Samuel Mumenthaler on September 22, 2020 at 12:39pm

Agreed!

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Permalink Reply by Eric Keith Longo on September 22, 2020 at 12:44pm

Also they added a border. I suspect the side to side ratio of the original (11x14?) would not fit the postcard format hence the crop job and loss of detail and color. I see this with 8x10's blown up for the 11x14 money grab - quality loss/over-enlargement/image degradation is evident and chopped compositions nearly always show on all these newer 11x14's.