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Beatles Autographed Guitar Plot Thickens!

Hi everyone,

Here is some of the back and forth on the guitar I left a picture of last week.

I have 3 weeks to initiate a charge back on my credit card for a refund. The auctioneer sent me this supposed email from Rabbane that was sent to him along with a picture of an old COA.to add to proof of validity.

Supposed to have been sold at auction by the famous photographer Roberto Rabbane. This guitar was sold along with a large lot of Rabbane pictures.

It is either an elaborate hoax or the real deal. Any and all insight from all of you here would be appreciated.

Thanks kindly in advance for your responses.

Doug

Roberto Rabbane Email:

Douglass- have attached the email Roberto sent me. Please do not be put off by the way he is writing. He is an artist and he gets insulted easily. He is 100% fine with a refund as he thinks i sold it for waaaaaaaay too little and he held the guitar when they signed it. There is no question as to the authenticity. I would d say take it an run, but I will do whatever you like.

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Permalink Reply by Bruce Juice on November 27, 2018 at 3:32pm

If this were real (and it isn't) it would be worth at least 200,000 to perhaps a million. Since there were only two fully signed ones ever documented.

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Permalink Reply by Eric Keith Longo on November 27, 2018 at 4:19pm

Thickens? An elaborate hoax would have the correct signature styles for the period claimed - mid '60's. This does not. What is does is reveal itself as a poor forgery, with decades between styles. I said it in your other thread - this guitar is self incriminating once it is claimed (by anyone) that these signatures were obtained at the same time. The same ink is the death knell. I ask you again, are they in the same ink? It is not real in any event, but if those are all in the same ink this is concluded as far as I can see. How could George sign with a 1990's style in the mid 60's? Does this not concern you?

Roberto Rabbane is online - write him and see if his name is being used without his knowledge. It might be a good bet...from what I am looking at he did not start photographing the Beatles until after 1966...what do 1966 Beatles signatures look like?

And why not post the photo of the guitar?