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Odd signed Cavern Club membership card at Heritage

There is a very strange signed Cavern Club Membership Card on sale at Heritage this coming weekend.

I have read the item particulars a couple of times but still don't fully understand what the item really is.

It appears to be a 1963 club card with the signed contents of a 1961 card stuck into it.

The signatures look fine for 1961 but If I had been Frank Caiazzao or Heritage I think I would have made it clearer that the card and the signatures do not really belong together.

Here is a link to the item:

http://entertainment.ha.com/itm/entertainment-and-music/beatles-ful...

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Permalink Reply by Lewis Reynolds on April 16, 2015 at 12:02am

It all sounds/looks fine to me.

It sounds like the original recepient glued her 1961 signatures into her 1963 carvern book.

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Permalink Reply by a pug called eva on April 16, 2015 at 2:51am

That's right, but to me a 1963 signed membership card would be a card signed in 1963 and not one with signed pages from another period stuck in.

The description states: "The signatures are featured on several pages within the booklet and on pages from a 1961 version of the booklet". I cannot see any 1963 signatures - at least not of any of the Beatles.

The description goes on: "A great collection of Beatles signatures, signed while on the cusp of celebrity. Signed Cavern Club membership books are very rare, and few signed by the Beatles are known to exist." I may be splitting hairs but to me these are signed pages from a (1961) Cavern Club membership book and not "a signed membership book" as such.

Put another way, it is a bit like like sticking autographs from a "Please Please Me" LP on a "White Album" and calling it "a signed White Album".

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Permalink Reply by Paul on April 16, 2015 at 3:22am

It's all disclosed Pug.
Stranger things have been done in the name of Beatles.

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Permalink Reply by Paul on April 16, 2015 at 5:49am

Well its a Mish mash that's for sure. Whether Sheila put it together her self or someone's done a stick and paste it leaves a lot to be desired for. There is Ringo and Pete best on one page. It's not something I'd buy. It's like a dog that's not a pure breed, it's a bit sa.

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Permalink Reply by a pug called eva on April 21, 2015 at 11:19am

I agree with you Paul.

Just to close the loop it went for a hammer price of $5,500, so touching $7,000 all in. A pretty uninteresting result - kind of what you would expect I guess.