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Signed Concert Flier and Doors "13" Album

Greetings. I was hoping to get some feedback from fellow Doors fans on two items I recently purchased. This was the first major purchase for my collection. Sadly, I think I was scammed.

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Permalink Reply by David Ladd on April 6, 2023 at 9:47am

Good one!

Permalink Reply by Bruce Juice on April 6, 2023 at 1:31pm

Good one -- suggest that name to the FBI -- they'll love it!

Permalink Reply by David Ladd on April 6, 2023 at 9:48am

I filed a complaint with the state AG's office. I reached out to Dalshire about returning the items and he simply said they are authentic. Wow. I will keep everyone posted as this evolves.

Permalink Reply by BallroomDays67 on April 6, 2023 at 10:24am

Nicely done. Thank you for keeping us updated. That’s a disgraceful response from Dalshire, but not a surprising one. The forger copied the signature on the back of the business card right down to the underline.

Permalink Reply by David Ladd on April 5, 2023 at 11:09am

Permalink Reply by Bruce Juice on April 5, 2023 at 12:36pm

Here is link to a previous discussion on GFA: 

https://live.autographmagazine.com/profiles/blogs/drew-max-aau-step...

Permalink Reply by Steve Cyrkin, Admin on April 5, 2023 at 1:04pm

Thank you for posting these!

Permalink Reply by Steve Cyrkin, Admin on April 6, 2023 at 4:26pm

David,

GFA and its owners Stephen Rocchi and Jackie Gomez were sued in January 2020 by collectors who bought over $70,000 in mostly rock memorabilia certified by GFA from Antiquities of San Francisco.

Their music purchases were reviewed by Roger Epperson of REAL, who determined that none were genuine.

GFA and Rocchi settled for what appears to be about $100,000, but apparently only paid them about $35,000, so the plaintiffs took them back to court a few months ago.

The lawsuit and all the court filings are online and viewable by anyone. Go to this page at California Superior Court San Francisco and enter the case number: CGC20582574

https://webapps.sftc.org/captcha/captcha.dll?referrer=https://webap...

This is what they bought:

  1. Eagles Signed Guitar $2,000.00
  2. Bon Jovi Signed Guitar $2,000.00
  3. KISS Signed Guitar $2,210.00
  4. James Bond Signed Photo Display $1,420.00
  5. The Departed Signed Photo Display $600.00
  6. Rolling Stones Signed Guitar $2,500.00
  7. The Who w/Moon Signed Guitar $4,000.00
  8. Led Zeppelin w/Bonham Signed Guitar $9,000.00
  9. AC/DC w/Bon Scott Signed Guitar $8,000.00
  10. Pink Floyd Signed Guitar $2,150.00
  11. Jimi Hendrix Signed Guitar $7,500.00
  12. Queen w/Mercury Signed Guitar $6,000.00
  13. Stevie Ray Vaughan Signed Guitar $3,500.00
  14. The Beatles Signed Guitar $13,875.00
  15. Good, Bad, Ugly: Eastwood Photo Signed Display $400.00
  16. Dirty Harry: Eastwood Photo Signed Display $400.00
  17. Godfather: Pacino Signed Photo Display $250.00
  18. Godfather 2: DeNiro Signed Photo Display$250.00
  19. Pink Floyd: Dark Side of Moon Signed LP Display $1,550.00
  20. Aerosmith Signed Guitar $1,675.00

This is the lawsuit they filed:

07146819.pdf

Permalink Reply by CJCollector on April 6, 2023 at 4:44pm

I am very happy this was posted by Steve.

I have zero knowledge of music autographs, but I can state for a fact that since the inception of Guaranteed Forensic Authenticators and Stephen Rocchi in Sept. 2011, I have yet to observe one authentic autograph of Mickey Mantle, Joe DiMaggio, Ted Williams, Sandy Koufax, Willie Mays, etc., with a COA from GFA.  Not one!!!

Permalink Reply by Steve Cyrkin, Admin on April 6, 2023 at 7:27pm

It may not surprise you, Chris, that there are no known intact, Beatles band-signed guitars, AC/DC band-signed guitars with Bon Scott, Led Zeppelin band-signed guitars with John Bonham, or Jimi Hendrix signed guitars. 

Permalink Reply by CJCollector on April 7, 2023 at 2:23pm

Thank you, Steve.  Great info!!!

Permalink Reply by Bruce Juice on April 6, 2023 at 9:45pm

After reading the lawsuit, it looks like two collectors from Canada bought over 70 grand worth of fake autographed material from Antiquities (who have since gone bankrupt accoring to the suit). Why they would spend so much money while relying only on the GFA certs is another question (and not checking with anyone else -- auction houses, other collectors, other third party authenticators, etc).  Shows you the importance of sites like AML -- to keep people from buying fakes. 

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