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Permalink Reply by spaceman on May 24, 2023 at 9:14pm

Another Ebay stunner.  

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Permalink Reply by fab432 on May 25, 2023 at 4:48am

I sent the info to Frank in case he wants to do anything about the listing.

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Permalink Reply by BallroomDays67 on May 25, 2023 at 9:27am

Thank you, fab.

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Permalink Reply by Bruce Juice on May 25, 2023 at 9:53am

Wow that LOA could fool alot of people. 

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Permalink Reply by Steve Cyrkin, Admin on May 25, 2023 at 5:00pm

I called the #1 authority on Frank Caiazzo LOAs: Frank Caiazzo. He said it's counterfeit and gave me more than 10 obvious reasons why. These are a few:

1. Most obvious: It says "I base this opinion on over 26 years of study of and experience with Beatles signed and handwritten material." The COA is dated 2009. He started in 1987, so that would be 22 years.
2. It's not on letterhead paper. It's printed on some sort of die-cut page.
3. The font used for Frank's name and address is clearly wrong. He did not use a serif font.
4. The date is written "July 04, 2009". He never would write July 4 as July 04". Who would?
5. The date is far darker than the rest of the text. His never look like that.
6. The verbiage is wrong for the time period.
7. His signature is printed on it, not actually signed.

Here's the complete fake LOA:

These are genuine examples of Frank's LOA with the same type style. Frank confirmed all of these are genuine:

Here's how Frank typed a date with a single-digit day:

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Permalink Reply by BallroomDays67 on May 25, 2023 at 5:09pm

Thank you for doing that, Steve. Here’s #8: “reduce in size” instead of “reduced in size.”

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Permalink Reply by fab432 on May 25, 2023 at 6:40pm

Well done everyone - the listing has been removed by eBay

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Permalink Reply by Steve Cyrkin, Admin on May 25, 2023 at 6:53pm

Thank you, fab432.

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