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Three Beatles sets - any stand a chance?

Hi, I'd be interested on your views on these three sets. I my view set 2 stands a decent chance, set 1 seems to be from the same hand and set 3 seems atypical in all four cases.

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Permalink Reply by Lewis Reynolds on February 21, 2015 at 2:24am

Maybe Aspinalls for 1 and 3.

Set 2 seems the best...but not 100% on these either

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Permalink Reply by Steve Cyrkin, Admin on February 21, 2015 at 3:24am

None of the sets look right to me.

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Permalink Reply by Jim Cushman on February 21, 2015 at 4:36am

#1 looks to be the work of Neil Aspinall...

#2 looks the best...but...

#3 LOOKS to be the work of Mal Evans...he signed when Neil couldn't...which wasn't often...

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Permalink Reply by terrier8HOF on February 21, 2015 at 5:21am

none of these are authentic, imo

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Permalink Reply by Jim Cushman on February 21, 2015 at 5:54am

Yeah,...I think #2 has to many problems... not authentic...

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Permalink Reply by Richard Booth on February 21, 2015 at 6:18am

All three don't look authentic to me.

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Permalink Reply by Ian Baldock on February 21, 2015 at 6:48am

I figure #3 a regular old forgery. Seems strange the managers would bother with so many different pens.

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Permalink Reply by Jim Cushman on February 21, 2015 at 7:32am

You'd be surprised...some of the autopen signed first name fan club pics used all black on some pics...and others had blue AND black pens mixed.

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Permalink Reply by a pug called eva on February 21, 2015 at 8:11am

Thanks for all the input thus far. All three of these sets are on offer at UK auction houses in the near future. Although the estimates are well below market prices they are not so low that you would instantly know that the sets are secretarial or forgeries and they are certainly not described as "signed on behalf of..". Makes you wonder why they don't do at least some due diligence. There is a Monroe of a similar ilk up next week too (high estimate £2k). You only need to Google MM signature study to find the same signature in RR's "secretarials".

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