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Permalink Reply by Jim McFiver on July 28, 2019 at 10:12pm

The signature looks good. I wouldn't buy it as it's incomplete (both first and last name) - but it looks fine too me.

Permalink Reply by James on July 28, 2019 at 10:50pm

But didn’t he typically just sign his first name?

Permalink Reply by Jesse Lee Hutchens on July 30, 2019 at 12:06am

99% of the examples I've found from celeb to fan encounters are just his first name.

Permalink Reply by James on July 28, 2019 at 10:57pm

Holy great find!!  If that’s authentic, that’s one helluva autograph find!  I don’t know Cobain’s autograph well, but it seems like there’s a decent chance it’s real.  It’s not like someone was trying to sell it to you.  Plus, there’s the identification on the back as if someone got Kurt’s autograph, and then noted on the back the date and location where he got it.

If it’s real, I wonder how it ended up in there.

Permalink Reply by Steve Cyrkin, Admin on July 28, 2019 at 11:32pm

Here's the autograph pic:

Party pooper here. I don't think it's real, Jesse. Nirvana only had one concert in Germany, at the Munich Airport on March 1, 1994, and Cobain was not in good shape. That's why they cancelled the rest of their European concerts after that. It's doubtful that he would have signed his name so smoothly and effortlessly.

It's also highly suspicious to me that it's signed on a piece of an index card. A forger could sign hundreds of examples trying to sign the one that looks just right. 

Another concern is that the index card, or portion of one, is in perfect shape. No wrinkles or folds. It looks rather good for one signed at a concert. 

One more is that it says it was signed in Germany, which means that part wasn't written by a German, who would have written Deutchland and probably just  Munich anyway. There are so many possibilities of why it's in English, though, that concern doesn't bother me much.

Permalink Reply by Jesse Lee Hutchens on July 29, 2019 at 8:18am

Very observant of you. Thank you.

Permalink Reply by marc e on July 29, 2019 at 8:05pm

are u saying there dishonest people.loll

Permalink Reply by Jesse Lee Hutchens on July 30, 2019 at 12:04am

No. I was very delighted by the in depth description of the points he was making instead of "it don't look right or look like mine so it's not real. My opinion is everything!!!"

Permalink Reply by Jesse Lee Hutchens on July 30, 2019 at 12:10am

Could it be that it's been in there since 1994? The CD looks Virtually unplayed. it's an OG printing from '93. I do believe you know more about Kurt's Autograph than I do. And by looking at it and examples it does seem easy to fake. Is there any KURT expert I can see? Someone who is essentially the Frank Caizzio of Nirvana?

Permalink Reply by Jesse Lee Hutchens on July 30, 2019 at 12:16am

Also the Autograph is in what looks to be in an acid free plastic sleeve. Like one used for baseball cards. That would protect it and keep it in good condition, also it being in the CD Case for 25 years. (If it's real that is.)

Permalink Reply by Steve Cyrkin, Admin on July 28, 2019 at 11:40pm

Jesse's probably A-OK, but something to keep in mind is that he could have signed it and is using us to hopefully authenticate it so he can point to this discussion when he's trying to sell it.

I'm not accusing Jesse of anything. It's just something we always to should keep in the back of our minds.