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Lennon/McCartney in autograph book - Real or Fake?
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These are in a standard small autograph album and the back-story is obtained in person, naturally.Cannot be secretarial so real or fake, what are your thoughts?…Continue
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Dear follower and fan.It is with great sadness and regret that I must share with you some information that has been recently brought to my attention.It appears, that since the year 1992, Christmas…Continue
MJ Real or Fake?
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Andy Warhol - Opinions Appreciated
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"Agreed."
"These look real to me too."
"Looks good to me. "
"COA's are, as a rule, worthless pieces of paper which any crook with access to a printer can generate at a moment's notice. COA's do not "authenticate" an autograph.
Until such time as every nation in the world agrees to…"
"I would not rule this out as an obvious fake. I have quibbles but I like the angle. Context would be important here for me - era, source. Overall I like it."
"I know and I must confess that it occurred to me for an instant - even in my confusion - to turn my back and walk away with the door open :-))"
"Ok - I kind of set it up, didn't I?
It still makes me laugh so here goes:
I was living in South London in the late 90's, quite near Camberwell where Jones lived. I was renting the middle floor of a large semi-detatched Edwardian villa,…"
"I would not buy this example myself.
I met him a few times - he even came to my house once (lol - great story!).
Two authentic examples below:
tj1.jpg
tj2.jpg"
"Looks fake. Circa 1970, supposedly? Old by then and his signature will have changed but too many discrepancies for me."
"Some types of artworks, e.g. a signed lithograph, should only be subjected to a discounted rate of 5% import duty - that is according to the HMRC website. You do have to spend a lot of time there, drilling down through the various categories and…"
"Thank you, good to know.
Sold for over $800 including add-ons etc, way above my interest levels anyway but it looked nice."
"It's simple - the blind leading the blind.
You see a seller with 50 or 5000 positive feedbacks and no negatives relating to quality of product and you immediately "trust" that seller. And if you are satisfied with what you buy…"
"In the early noughties, I was so incensed with the blatantly and transparently fraudulent activities of a lot of sellers that I actually changed my user-name to FAKE-SIGNATURE-SPOTTER and would bid on/buy items I knew to be forgeries. In those days…"
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