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Permalink Reply by Cogo on November 9, 2018 at 1:36pm

Over the last few years the market have been flooded with some (unfortunally) really good fakes from a forger in the UK. He sold the usual signed photos and albums but also a lot of sketches. This makes me hesitant when it comes to giving opinions on U2 items, especially Bono sketches.

Here’s a link to a great blog made by AML member Verland about this forger: https://live.autographmagazine.com/profiles/blogs/the-great-bono-fr...

Where is the two you ask about from?

And if interested, here’s my small U2 collection: https://live.autographmagazine.com/photo/photo/listForContributor?s...

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Permalink Reply by Corey Moylan To Cogo on November 9, 2018 at 1:53pm

Cogo - I agree that the OP has the characteristics of the items identified as the work of the UK forger. They are very good attempts. However, I see similar structure of the 'B' as the forgers, as well as hard pen pressure.

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Permalink Reply by Cogo To Corey Moylan on November 9, 2018 at 7:46pm

No problems Tim!

And I would just want to make clear that I’m not 100% sure if this sketch is a fake. I just wanted to point out that given all the really good forgeries that has hit the market over the last few years, I would be very careful and only buy one from rock solid sources!

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Permalink Reply by Vestland on November 10, 2018 at 1:03am

The sketch is definitely a fake from the UK-forger... Lp is authentic IMO

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Permalink Reply by Overseas on November 10, 2018 at 4:51am

LP are real, scketch are 100%fake from english forger

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