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Tape damaged Beatles set sells for £2295, thoughts
A significantly tape damaged set just sold for £2295 inc buyer's premium. Assuming they are genuine what do you think of this price? Would you ever want to own something like this or would you rule it out due to condition? Was wondering what people thought about this. Cheers
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Permalink Reply by JMS1223 on
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That’s good the tape is gone so no further damage will occur in that manner. Looks like a nice set of Beatles signatures too.
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Permalink Reply by Raul Serrano on
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I have this 1963 Lennon item that has tape damage. To me, the stains are part of the story behind each signature. For example, this is a food menu signed on the back.
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Would had been more interesting if the entire menu was kept intact without cutting the signature out of it. I bet it was originally personalized to someone.
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Permalink Reply by BallroomDays67 on
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I think any remaining tape could be removed without affecting the ink, which is still pretty bold. I think the bigger issue as far as value is concerned is that the set has been trimmed. Ink has been trimmed off of all four signatures.
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Permalink Reply by Steve Cyrkin, Admin on
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True. I was too generous on the value but US $4K would be reasonable.
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I like the set for the money. It was a good deal. Anything under US $5,000 would be reasonable.
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Permalink Reply by michelle on
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I like it as well for the money, - it has a quirkiness about it which I like
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Plus you pretty much know it’s authentic. It would be difficult to reproduce that kind of tape damage to a forgery (unless it was an old fake that someone taped up decades ago). But they look right to me so it’s definitely a great deal at under $5000 for sure.
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Permalink Reply by a pug called eva on
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You certainly cannot say that $2,300 is too much for a complete set of well placed, well written and non-faded Beatles' autographs but the condition would put me off buying them for myself. It is not just the tape that puts me off but the fact that three of the autographs run off the page. Only Ringo is complete. They would be somewhat better if the tape already fallen off but I think it is still there.
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Having now seen Ballroom's post above I now realize that even Ringo's autograph is not entirely complete, though I don't think that part of the trimming would bother me so much.
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Good point about the trimming. They all seem to suffer from it, Ringo’s signature having the least noticeable trimming but looking at it again now, I can see it is a little trimmed off which I hadn’t noticed at first glance. I guess that is a pretty big issue since it’s not complete signatures. Explains the very inexpensive sale. The tape stains are probably much less important than the trimming issue.
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