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Beatles signed PYX Magazine

What do the members think the value is of this magazine? (If authentic). Some dark markings/wear on the cover and Ringo's last name has some contrast issues.

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Permalink Reply by Steve Cyrkin, Admin on Wednesday

The autographs are stamped or ink transfers of some sort.

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Permalink Reply by Eric Keith Longo yesterday

Agree - some of the ink track makes no sense (cross overs - "H") and the application looks odd.

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Permalink Reply by fab432 yesterday

Agree - When you enlarge the signatures the ink lay down patterns do appear to be stamps of some sort.

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Permalink Reply by EndlessNameless yesterday

Looking at the photo, there is obviously some kind of weird final compression proofing/artifacts going on. take a look at the PYX logo at the bottom and how weird it looks. To get a more accurate representation of the piece, I would have to see a 600 dpi scan of the piece because what's going on with the PYX logo is happening with the signatures.

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Permalink Reply by Steve Cyrkin, Admin yesterday

Yes, it appears to have been purposely enlarged to be pixelated, but not saved as a low-quality JPG, so there aren't many artifacts.

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Permalink Reply by BallroomDays67 yesterday

What do you think about Ringo’s star symbol? It looks like there are tiny spots of missing paper where the pen dug into the cover and damaged it.

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Permalink Reply by Steve Cyrkin, Admin yesterday

There are a lot of surface tears in the cover. I just put it in photoshop and it looks better but it's on a purposely distorted photo. Can't tell without seeing it in person, or at least properly image in high res. I think there is some sort of sleaze involved.

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Permalink Reply by Steve Cyrkin, Admin yesterday

RR sold his one in 2013, which appears to have cartridge-pen autographs. I don't think the one in the OP is transferred anymore, but it doesn't look natural. You need to see it in person.

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Permalink Reply by JDZelenka yesterday

I would be amazed if that is some sort of print fraud - it would mean you could barely trust anything these days. I can't tell from this photo. If it is a print fraud then there would have to be originals of these four signatures floating around somewhere.

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Permalink Reply by JDZelenka yesterday

On value, Frank Caiazzo sold an authentically signed version of this cover a little more than a year ago for about $24,000. I have seen some at auction slightly cheaper.