Grateful Dead Signed Guitar--Authentic or Fake

Hi all,

First post on the site. I am considering purchasing a signed Grateful Dead guitar. The background story of how these were obtained sounds a bit outlandish from the people selling, but I want to see if those who "know" have an opinion on the legitimacy of the signatures.

Any help is greatly appreciated.

Link below:

http://www.starmarks.net/framed-signed-grateful-dead-guitar-p-1649....

Thanks

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Comment by Rick Meyer on January 26, 2013 at 7:06pm: Ive heard horror stories about Starmarks. I wouldn't touch it. Just me though. That kind of money I'd demand they have best authenticators available look at it first. Wouldnt accept anything less.

Comment by Steve Cyrkin, Admin on January 26, 2013 at 7:13pm: Thomas,

I'm glad you found us! These are poor quality forgeries in my opinion, which is all that I've seen from Starmarks or Starabilias.

Comment by Rich on January 26, 2013 at 7:15pm: Likely fake, given how awful that website looks and Starabilia's dubious history. There are couple threads about them, including this one:

http://live.autographmagazine.com/forum/topics/disney-s-hollywood-s...

Comment by Carl Ryan on January 27, 2013 at 5:09am: Cool frame!! Horrible Autographs!!

Comment by Bjarne Soderholm on January 28, 2013 at 3:34am: This is as bad as it can get. I wouldn't mind to spend $9.000 for a real signed guitar by Grateful Dead, but this company will not get my money.

Comment by Carl Ryan on January 28, 2013 at 6:32pm: It just is funnier the more you look at it. Instead of a nice generic COA, they post a 2004 appraisal letter that prices the guitar at 11,500. I guess that is supposed to mean something as far as authenticity. Its kinda like Julians telling the news crews to talk to their authenticator (some lady, i forget her name) expert about the MJs, and then she actually turned out to be a random appraiser. And had nothing to do with authenticating autographs. Which seems to be a direct lie.

It seems the same diversion technique is in use here with the appraisal letter. As if this appraiser would have any idea if these were genuine items. Not only that, but if the guitar was appraised in 2004, has it just been sitting around for the last 9 years? It seems odd. Im wondering if this item was returned by someone who found out it was fake and then Starbillas just put it back up for sale again. Of course im just thinking out loud their.

Comment by JOEL BRIER on January 30, 2013 at 1:35pm: Steve, I could not agree with you more. My opinion is the same. As a long time collector of Grateful Dead Memorabelia I have a huge collection of exemplars dating back to 1966. I do not have one that looks anything like this. In addition to that the fact that the most difficult of signatures to obtain are on the guitar and the Brent Mydland signiture is on the pic guard falls a little short of making sence.