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Permalink Reply by Richard Booth on December 20, 2020 at 3:13am

This is not real and one of the known forgery styles which has flooded eBay for years.

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Permalink Reply by Greg Harper on November 16, 2021 at 5:19pm

This KISS item signed in gold is one of the MANY fakes I've seen over the years being peddled on EBay (and the like)- often being sold alongside some bogus story of the item having once previously belonged to the famed KISS fan and collector Vinny Gonzales. 

Two key tells:

A) Simmons does not employ a lightning bolt 'S' and if he ever did it pre dates the invention of the paint pen. This signature is modeled after the Simmons signature used as a graphic overlay in the KISS ALIVE I booklet. Its got a sexy vibe and looks nice and all with the pronounced dollar sign, but it is a forgery.

B) The T-bar in the Stanley sig is dead wrong. It is inverted- making a sharp positive slope. A genuine Paul Stanley will yield a T-bar that has a negative slope- going DOWN from the left and NOT up.

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