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Permalink Reply by Mark Saunders on July 25, 2023 at 9:16am

Doesn’t look good to me. 

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Permalink Reply by Steve Cyrkin, Admin on July 26, 2023 at 1:17pm

Not real IMO.

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Permalink Reply by a pug called eva on July 26, 2023 at 10:25pm

Thanks Mark and Steve, it certainly didn't look like the few (all much more child-like) symbol autographs I have been able to find through Google but as the CD booklet had fairly passable autographs from several band members I thought there might be a chance.  

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Permalink Reply by MG on July 29, 2023 at 12:24am

It is actually authentic, matches well to his French in-store signing. He signed the symbol that way (upwwards) only in the early 90s and then changed the way he signed the symbol in 1995 or so, before he completely quit signing.

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Permalink Reply by a pug called eva on July 29, 2023 at 1:21am

Thanks MG, I wish you'd seen my post earlier - it sold three days ago for ca. USD 500.

The seller mentioned Paris but the date he/she gave was a date that Prince played in the US (12 March 1993).

I must confess that I suspected I might be being over-cautious, especially as the CD itself had the gold embossed cover, which I think went out of print pretty quickly after the CD was released.

Here are the other signatures in the booklet.

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Permalink Reply by Elfar Sigmundsson on September 24, 2023 at 9:01am

This is real and was signed at Fnac Étoiles, Paris on September 1, 1993. In 1992-93 he signed his symbol like this. Then in 94-95 he changed his style for the symbol!
It is consistant with other signatures from the same day!

Elfar Sigmundsson
Prince Signatures Group

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