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Permalink Reply by Ulf Degrell on July 8, 2014 at 3:02am

Michelle

Do you have the history behind this one? Who wrote the "All our Love"? My concern is the Bjorn signature. I have not seen the B done in that way before.

Ulf

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Permalink Reply by michelle on July 8, 2014 at 3:52am

Thanks Ulf.  yes Bjorn's is the one out of all of them that is making me the most nervous . I don't know about  All our love  for sure, but its also not Gorel's handwriting either as I have seen some of the earlier ones with her writing 'with love from..' on it . The vendor , who is  apparently a hugh Abba fan  , got it in 1977 from the Swedish Xmas Fair in London in 1977.  This immediately worried me so I asked the auction house to check because Agnetha would have been heavily pregnant at the time   so this would have been impossible.  Apparently the new story is that she won it at the Swedish Xmas fair in London where there were some of these up for  grabs.  So that's the story.  The vendor is apparently a hugh Abba fan; - the thing that I also can't understand is if you are a hugh fan, why would you sell this?  To find one with all 4 & then to sell it seems unbelievable really.  Do you know what I mean?

If I am not mistaken you are the gentleman who has met B & B, I think.  That is really amazing.  I have been trying to meet one of them, but to meet 2 is amazing . I'd love to know all about it.  tAnyway  the auction is tomorrow

  kind regards

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Permalink Reply by Ulf Degrell on July 8, 2014 at 5:06am

This one is a hard one for sure. Iknow that Gorel did some fanclub stuff and I agree that's not her Writing and for sure it's not Bjorn ( as his signature is under the text).

Yes, I have met Bjorn and Benny. Although not both at the same time. I have two pictures that I got in person. I got Bjorn a week after the opening of the museum. Bjorn is quite easy to meet since he is at the museum quite often. Benny is also quite easy. I got him when he was performing with his group BAO last year. Benny can also be often found at his hotel in Stockholm. When I asked Bjorn to sign the two pictures he was concerned about me selling them. So I asked him to make them personalized to me. Then there was no problems at all. The ladys are much harder task. Since Frida does not live in Sweden anymore and Agnetha is very private.

I hope that you will get some more inputs from the real experts here.

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Permalink Reply by Gogo Brem on July 8, 2014 at 11:14am

Hi Michelle,

Björn's 'B' doesn't worry me at all. In the earlier years (up to 78 or so) he often wrote it exactly that way. The "All our love" line was written by Frida. Judging by the signatures, esp. Frida and Agnetha's, I'd say you have a wonderful genuine ABBA-autograph from 1977/78.

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