The Beatles All Four Fully Signed Unique "Best Wishes" EP Parlaphone 1964

Description: The Beatles - All Four Fully Signed Unique Signatures on "Best Wishes" stickers John & Paul on Side 1 and George & Ringo on Side 2 of Original Press Parlaphone 1964 Long Tall Sally EP. Bonham's Auction - Lot Sticker Affixed to EP Sleeve. Only the original press GEP 8913 EP has the "Sold in the U.K. Subject to Resale Price Conditions" Printing in the center label. Reissues and Box Set Copies do not. IMPORTANT PLEASE READ: A word of caution about autographs. I generally do not buy them. Most of them are fake. Especially the Beatles. I have bought many fakes in my over 40 years of collecting Beatles memorabilia. In my 20's, my best friend gave me a handwritten John Lennon letter for a Christmas gift with a certificate of authenticity. It was indeed authentic. There was something about seeing his fluid writing in live ink "memo style" that inspired me to study his handwriting. I studied it by year and by all examples I could find. What I found was confusing. Nearly all the examples I could find were not congruent. I realized I could recognize his handwriting and the six different ways he wrote his e's and l's and f's and y's. I could see when he regressed to childhood type writing when he was stressed. His sister Julia sent me a handwriting example asking me to guess the year. I was 3 years off but I knew she wasn't tricking me. I knew his handwriting and I saw fakes everywhere. I also saw authenticity where others didn't. I bought items unattributed to him because I knew it was his handwriting. On test presses, postcards and even eye glass cases. I bought them cheap. Getting them authenticated was a different story. Some of the most expensive items ever sold attributed to John Lennon and The Beatles are fake. Plainly fake - regardless of the COA or whatever the "expert" says. Until autographs can be authenticated forensically, with things like touch DNA, DNA tagging and easily available kits for saliva on stamps or high tech brought to your smart phone to measure live ink, ink dating, ink DNA, pressure, flow and full algorithmic scans, you can never be sure the autograph you're buying is real without rock solid provenance. Because there are so very few authentic autographs available for sale, I don't seek them out. Yet my collecting has brought a lot of them to me. I bought a lot at a UK auction this summer and buried there within all the London avant garde 60's art stuff, UFO stuff & correspondence was another authentic John Lennon handwritten artifact. I didn't pay for that. No one else bid on that lot but me. What a surprise! A strange treasure and a peek into his head in the spring of 1968 and his creativity with "white-out" or "typex" as they call it in the UK. I bought THIS record recognizing John Lennon's handwriting after eyeing it very suspiciously because of the too perfect pairs of signature's on Side 1 and Side 2. I blew them up online and looked at every stroke in all four - the upstrokes, the downstrokes and pressure points. After studying these for a long time, I was fairly sure that John, Paul & George's were real but never came to a conclusion on Ringo because of the strange double stroke on the R and the weirdo o. Ringo has the most consistent autograph of all three. But this signature bothered me. How could one not be real if two or three were? This is why I don't do autographs as a rule! But here is the other thing you find when you've been collecting Beatles memorabilia a long time... the fakes repeat themselves. Then the fakes copy the known authentic ones. This is the first time I have seen these "Best Wishes" stickers so that convinced me they were real. The tricksters love to repeat their tricks. This is unique. If this were inauthentic, I came to believe, there would be "Best Wishes" stickers on everything! I believe the person they signed this for came with the stickers to sign this way and affixed them to her or his record. Ringo may have been at a weird angle. He writes and plays drums right handed but he is a lefty. George may have been crowding him or something. I believe these are genuine. I wouldn't buy or try to sell to you something inauthentic. Not only do I believe they are genuine, I agree with Bonham's that they are Unique! Let's all hope we don't start seeing "Best Wishes" stickers pop up everywhere now! No reserve.

Price: 9091.99 USD

Location: Noblesville, Indiana

End Time: 2024-12-30T16:38:47.000Z

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