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Permalink Reply by Eric Keith Longo on March 27, 2017 at 8:02pm

Great job Corey. I fear this might be one of those high tech tings I wrote about in the Springsteen thread. Ah, I just found the larger pics in your link. That guitar guard appears to have cross over and all. 

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Permalink Reply by BallroomDays67 on March 27, 2017 at 8:48pm

These are the same images that were posted in the other thread. A third match has been found as well.

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Permalink Reply by Eric Keith Longo on March 27, 2017 at 8:53pm

Good work Ballroom. Any idea what were are looking at here with these?

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Permalink Reply by Steve Cyrkin, Admin on March 27, 2017 at 8:59pm

Four, Ballroom. You found four matches.

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Permalink Reply by BallroomDays67 on March 27, 2017 at 9:07pm

Ah, that's correct. Thanks.

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Permalink Reply by Corey Moylan on March 27, 2017 at 10:25pm

It's great work what you have discovered Ballroom. The reason for the second post was not to undermine what has been previously discovered, but instead put this scam to the forefront. Want to thank yourself and the others that have discovered this mess of a scandal.

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Permalink Reply by Steve Cyrkin, Admin on March 27, 2017 at 8:58pm

Hi Corey,

Good post. We've found four so far with exact matches to McCartney autographs in "High in the Clouds" books. Three certifed by JSA Florida and one by PSA/DNA. There are no doubt many more.

I don't think they are live ink or Autopen. They are adhered on the surface of the pickguards, and I think I've figured out how but can't confirm it until I have better images or see at least one in person.

They look so good that it's not surprising that they have been authenticated. 

We can all thank Ballroom for discovering the book signatures. 

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Permalink Reply by Steve Cyrkin, Admin on March 27, 2017 at 9:07pm

Eric,

We can't tell for sure without better images and hopefully seeing one or more in person.

What I think the forgers are doing is taking very high quality images of the book autographs and transferring a mirror image of them onto pickguards.

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Permalink Reply by Eric Keith Longo on March 27, 2017 at 9:18pm

The books are chosen for the paper type ("semi-gloss" grainless vellum or??) "helping" perhaps, and the good clean sigs? It is interesting they all seem to start with this book, not sure what else it could mean in anything. Would love to see one in hand.

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Permalink Reply by Steve Cyrkin, Admin on March 27, 2017 at 9:22pm

The books were chosen because McCartney went on a major book-signing tour when "High in the Clouds" came out. He signed thousands of beautiful autographs on blank parts of the page.

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Permalink Reply by Steve Cyrkin, Admin on March 27, 2017 at 9:23pm

But the autographs on the pickguards look far better than most he signed on the street. 

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Permalink Reply by BallroomDays67 on March 27, 2017 at 9:32pm

I'm surprised that JSA didn't catch onto it. The nicer "High in the Clouds" signatures are pretty distinctive, which is what was used for the pick guards. Most of the Macca signed pick guards I've seen don't look that nice, and they received at least three really nice examples that look like "High in the Clouds" signatures, which they should have been familiar with. After all, the signatures are about 12 years old.

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