Is George Harrison the most erratic signature on the market?

These signatures are for sale from our friends at Tracks uk.

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Permalink Reply by Edward Siebert on December 16, 2015 at 7:54pm

Wow...Tracks is usually pretty good. Of those three examples you posted, the 2nd and 3rd are terrible forgeries. The 1st could be real in-person but very rushed.
But either way, he is not the most erratic. So manycelebrity signatures have deteriorated over the years much worse...like Paul McCartney or Harrison Ford or Eric Clapton.

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Permalink Reply by Steve Cyrkin, Admin on December 16, 2015 at 8:26pm

Ed,

I can see why you'd think that. 2 is rushed as heck and 3 is quite unusual. But I see a number of genuine characteristics in the second one, and the third looks like George's writing. Plus look at the G in Geoffrey and the small G in George.

Tracks gives me confidence, but Tracks or not, I think they've got the right characteristics.

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Permalink Reply by Edward Siebert on December 16, 2015 at 9:09pm

Hi Ateve,
In that third one, the G in Geoffrey is more like his signature than the G in George, which is weird. I've never seen an authentic example of him writing his name with a G in this style. and the first e in George is lower case and the last is capitalized type, which is also weird.That second one still looks really bad to me, but I think the first has many genuine characteristics. But so hard to tell with these examples.

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Permalink Reply by Paul on December 16, 2015 at 9:11pm

But yet there for sale and are certified.

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Permalink Reply by Steve Cyrkin, Admin on December 16, 2015 at 9:25pm

It really can be tough to tell, Edward. I asked Ballroom to check out some that I couldn't tell one way or the other on. They were even more rushed than the second one.