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Band-Signed Beatles Album Census and Price History 2016

It's been 5 years since we published our first Band-Signed Beatles Album Census.

It's time to update it!

A history of full-band-signed Beatles album prices would be hugely helpful to the marketplace as well, going back as far as we can, so let's build that, too. Not just from auctions, but reports from collectors and dealers who have sold them.

For starters, please read the 2011 Census, which had a few years of updating and other input added by collectors and dealers.

Add your research and commentary to this discussion for now, and as we get more data, we'll post two separate discussions to fine tune it. Once we feel comfortable with the information we have and what we have determined, we'll publish reports that will help collectors and dealers worldwide make better educated decisions on Beatles album sales and purchases.

These are the results of the 2011 census:

US Release Band-Signed Beatles Albums

0 “Introducing the Beatles” [Added to list on Sept. 16, 2019]

6-7 “Meet the Beatles”
2 “Help”
1 “Beatles 65”
1 “Beatles VI”
0 “Rubber Soul”
2 “Revolver”
0 “Magical Mystery Tour”
0 “Abbey Road” +1 offered by Autographs for Sale on eBay starting Mar. 16, 2019
0 “Yellow Submarine”
1 “White Album” +1 sold by Tracks in Nov/Dec 2013 for $186,000; +1 more signed for the same person who got the other 2 signed (added 3/13/19)
1 “Sgt. Pepper’s Lonely Hearts Club Band”
0 “Let it Be”

17 US Albums Known

UK Release Band-Signed Beatles Albums
Roughly 75 “Please Please Me” (Their first album, signed in three 1963 UK promotional tours)
16-21 “With the Beatles” (The tail end of their easier accessibility) [Editor's Note: 1 since April 2011 added.]
8-10 “Hard Day’s Night”
3 “Beatles for Sale”
2 “Help”
1 “Rubber Soul” +1
1 “Revolver”
5 “Sgt. Pepper’s Lonely Hearts Club Band” +1 sold by Bonhams on June 30, 2016
0 “Magical Mystery Tour” (All reissues from the 1980s and up.)
0 “White Album”+1 UK (sold to collector in the US)
0 “Yellow Submarine”
2 “Abbey Road”
0 “Let it Be”

Roughly 113-120 UK Albums Known (38-45 plus roughly 75 “Please Please Me” albums)

Let's do it!

Tags: beatles album, census, history, price

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Permalink Reply by Adam Halloran on June 27, 2017 at 9:25am

Cat Pee is a good provenance though...Shouldn't affect value! Haha :)

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Permalink Reply by Kevin Richards on June 27, 2017 at 12:33pm

I would think a little cat pee would add to the value of any signed album. Especially among cat lovers. And if there's any doubt, one can could simply ask Cat Stevens.

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Permalink Reply by a pug called eva on August 2, 2017 at 11:18am

I was searching for something and came across this Sgt. Pepper that sold at Bonhams, London in June 2016 for close on £75,000 ($95,000), including buyers premium.

As it was undiscovered before and isn't mentioned in this thread (as far as I can see from the post-June 2016 entries), I assume it is not in the census yet.

Seems quite a high price given that the Ringo was added in 1997 (only "Ringo") and the Lennon appears incomplete (more or less just "John Le"). Then again, I'm always - and probably wrongly - amazed at the price of signed albums.

Here are links to the auction item and a story about its history. I grew up very close to where the owner lived. Shame I didn't get wind of it at the time!

https://www.bonhams.com/auctions/23239/lot/238/

http://www.express.co.uk/news/uk/683772/Beatles-superfan-Ringo-Star...

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Permalink Reply by a pug called eva on August 2, 2017 at 11:21am

Sorry, just saw the late addition to the list at the top of thread. Maybe the links will be of interest anyway....

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Permalink Reply by Tommy Byron on August 3, 2017 at 9:35am

I did just buy the Meet the Beatles signed the day of the first Ed Sullivan. I also bought a few years ago from Fab 4 Collectables the Rubber Soul.

http://www.fab4collectibles.com/AA158.htm

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Permalink Reply by mark peterson on August 3, 2017 at 3:58pm

There is an Abbey Road lp signed by all pictured in one of Mark Lewisohns books,the pic is very small but looks good as gold.Ill try to send the pic once I get the camera up and going.

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Permalink Reply by Steve Cyrkin, Admin on August 3, 2017 at 4:01pm

That would be great! Thanks

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Permalink Reply by KarlKeaton on August 3, 2017 at 10:44pm

In one of his books, I think it was Beatles Chronicles there were pictures of a 'signed' Abbey Road and 'Butcher Cover'.....they were both Joe Long forgeries.

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Permalink Reply by Tobi on February 16, 2018 at 10:34am

Hi,

I like this discussion. Did Paul or Ringo (or John and George) ever give some hints, informations or something else about signed Beatles albums? Such statements can surely help to authenticate and find them?!

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Permalink Reply by KarlKeaton on February 17, 2018 at 4:55am

I personally don’t know of any comments about the authenticity of specific autographs or sets.

Don’t get me wrong but I wouldn’t even be sure that they’d be my authenticators of choice, not when it comes to ‘decent’ forgeries, if you get my drift?

In much the same way I wouldn’t trust them with specific dates in Beatles history. There are people who pay far more attention to these things than The remaining Beatles themselves.

Wouldn’t it be cool to have an authentic Beatles signed COA on a forged item?

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Permalink Reply by Beatlemaniacal on March 31, 2018 at 9:02am

We’re the proud owners of the “Mad Day Out” Rubber Soul, signed by all four in August ‘68 (during the White Album recording sessions). As with our entire Beatles collection, it was acquired directly from Mr. Caiazzo in 2013:

https://m.facebook.com/pg/beatlemaniacal/photos/?tab=album&albu...