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Beatles promo card - signed or printed?

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Permalink Reply by Octopus’s Garden on January 20, 2024 at 3:55pm

Hi everyone, I would really appreciate some expert opinions on this Beatles promo card. I have owned it for many years and always assumed that the signatures were printed but some collectors have suggested that they may be real? Any advice would be appreciated 😊

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Permalink Reply by BallroomDays67 on January 20, 2024 at 4:18pm

I’ve seen this set before. May we see the front of the card?

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Permalink Reply by Octopus’s Garden on January 20, 2024 at 4:55pm

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Permalink Reply by BallroomDays67 on January 20, 2024 at 5:08pm

Thanks. Here’s the image that I have:

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Permalink Reply by Octopus’s Garden on January 20, 2024 at 5:18pm

Thank you for sharing yours. So assume that these are preprints?

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Permalink Reply by BallroomDays67 on January 20, 2024 at 5:36pm

I’m not entirely sure. Yours has some condition issues that aren’t present on the one I posted, but you can faintly see the same crease or stain under “records.”

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Permalink Reply by fab432 on January 21, 2024 at 5:16am

The front of the promo card in the OP has a cup ring stain that runs through John’s neck plus a few other noticeable stains. None of these marks are on the card posted by Ballroom. Does this mean the card posted by Ballroom is the same card as the OP but the imperfections have been restored or are they different cards?

IMO. If there are 2 cards the signatures are too exact to be individual hand signed cards and I would say the signatures are printed.

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Permalink Reply by BallroomDays67 on January 21, 2024 at 8:12am

They’re different cards.

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Permalink Reply by BallroomDays67 on January 21, 2024 at 8:00am

These signatures were also printed onto a very beat up scrap of paper.

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Permalink Reply by fab432 on January 21, 2024 at 8:25am

Very interesting. So were these printed by the Fan Club for official fan give aways? And the printing on that crumpled paper must be more recent than the fan club cards?

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Permalink Reply by BallroomDays67 on January 21, 2024 at 8:42am

They weren’t printed by the Fan Club. I was thinking that Octopus’ card might be the original. There’s a small spot to the left of Paul’s ‘T’ that’s reproduced on the other two, and you can see similar spots elsewhere on that card.