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Signed guitars

Hello! So my husband and I made a quick decision to purchase 5 signed guitars from the estate of a collector for $100 each. We figured it was worth the gamble for that price. These were the last 5 available in a collection of about 22 others. They didn’t come with COAs, but other ones in the collection did have them and the guy seemed like a serious collector. Advice on what we should do to try and get them authenticated? We’ve spent the last 3 hours figuring out the sigs because the seller knew nothing about them. We have Tom Petty, The Rolling Stones, Santana, Steve Miller and U2. Ill try and figure out how to attach 5 photos...

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Permalink Reply by Shaggy67 on December 29, 2018 at 4:35pm

None of these are any good, sorry. The Ronnie Woods & Kefs sigs are about half done. Like they were trying to learn them and just gave up. Im with Steve Z. Remove sigs & learn how to play guitar! LoL Merry X mas anyway.

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Permalink Reply by Eric Keith Longo on December 29, 2018 at 4:43pm

I am sorry this happened such as it is. You took a chance and in general that is admirable. Next time perhaps some more research beforehand. But please - don't throw money away sending any of these to get authenticated. Better eyes are here and the opinions are free (the "big" authenticators also, in the end, only have opinions and those are not always correct).

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Permalink Reply by Casey on December 29, 2018 at 5:46pm

Thanks for the input guys. We were very aware of it being a gamble and are fortunate enough to be able to take that gamble.

We found some info about a lot of fender starcasters that were signed by Rolling Stones in 2005 in New York. The photos of those are pretty spot on to the one we have so we’re going to email that company to see if they can look up the sticker number to verify.

If anything we can resell the guitars to make most of the cash back :)

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Permalink Reply by goodcat on December 29, 2018 at 6:08pm

I would love to see the example of the other Stones signed guitar that looks spot on to you.

I would think if it looks anything like this one you posted, then the other is fake as well.
These are far from authentic Stones sigs

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Permalink Reply by Eric Keith Longo on December 29, 2018 at 6:14pm

+1 Agree - this is true. That Richards and Jagger....

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Permalink Reply by Eric Keith Longo on December 29, 2018 at 8:19pm

Hello, this? Stones Signed Stratocaster Nov 2005 NYC

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Permalink Reply by goodcat on December 29, 2018 at 8:51pm

good eyes Eric

That looks almost the same aaahahahaha

Yes I know you know I'm jkn wit ya hehe ;-)

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Permalink Reply by Eric Keith Longo on December 29, 2018 at 9:14pm

;)

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Permalink Reply by Josh Board on December 29, 2018 at 7:04pm

None of those look good, but...they all got the style of the signatures right.

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Permalink Reply by Mike Kaminski on December 29, 2018 at 9:49pm

No, they really didn’t get the styles of the signatures right.

These are all poor forgeries likely made on cheap guitars. Tracking down whoever “verified” them is just a waste of time, no experienced/knowledgeable collector will acknowledge these as authentic.

On the bright side, you should be able to wipe off the signatures and get something for the guitars to recoup part of your investment. Just please don’t sell these with the signatures in hopes of trying to get someone to bite on them.