Authentic Autograph??

[VROBERTSON]

Calling on the collective experience and intelligence of the AK family for help. A few days ago, I picked up a copy of Peter Frampton's "Frampton Comes Alive!" at a local thrift, and while I was inspecting the jacket upon flipping it over, I found what appears to be an autograph by Mr.Frampton in blue ink pen. In the corner, in what appears to be the same pen, "To Sherri, from Pattys. Happy Birthday".

After doing some research on the web, I found that Peter seems to have a good deal of variances in his signatures. What do you guys think, does this look authentic?

 

[VROBERTSON]

Sorry..

Looks like I need some help posting a scanned image. Going to the forum threads in search of a solution....

 

[spartanmanor]

You will need to attach the .pdf file providing a link to your computer does not work.

 

[spartanmanor]

Use the go advanced button under the message reply and you will find a place to upload photos from there.

 

[VROBERTSON]

Thanks

I think I got it figured out, thanks for the help.

 

[VROBERTSON]

Bump

 

[Wazz]

Sherri must have been a dolt to give away her Frampton autograph. But does that add a great deal of value? Does it make an old record a say, 50$ item? Now it would be great if you found a Frampton autographed Strat.

 

[michaelhigh]

This looks as if some turkey scribbled a name that definitely wasn't their own. Autographs tend to be more fluid and reflect a certain pride in being asked to do such a thing. Looks poorly faked to me. Letter of authenticity?

 

[Montycat]

This looks as if some turkey scribbled a name that definitely wasn't their own. Autographs tend to be more fluid and reflect a certain pride in being asked to do such a thing. Looks poorly faked to me. Letter of authenticity?

Yeah, maybe, but not in my experience is it that clearcut. I have not had many signatures, but none of Bruce Cockburn, the 2 guitar guys from Styx Tommy Shaw and James Young, John Lee Hooker and the odd other one I have had were ever particularly recognizable. In fact Jon Lee Hooker scrawled JLH on a ticket stub in a very shaky hand. He was illiterate after all so I cut him a little slack!

 

[cubby01]

Looks legit to me. I wouldn't personally pay much for it but someone might. I suspect there are enough Frampton signed covers out there that they aren't considered rare and valuable enough to be professionally 'authenticated'.

 

[Hajidub]

Yeah, maybe, but not in my experience is it that clearcut. I have not had many signatures, but none of Bruce Cockburn, the 2 guitar guys from Styx Tommy Shaw and James Young, John Lee Hooker and the odd other one I have had were never particularly recognizable. In fact Jon Lee Hooker scrawled JLH on a ticket stub in a very shaky hand. He was illiterate after all so I cut him a little slack!

Now the Jon Lee Hooker (The Big Bad Cooker) one would be cool! What's really funny about this thread is that "Frampton Comes ALive" came up three times at work yesterday. My addition to the conversation was how I see a million of these albums at thrifts, and how I wouldn't mind accidently dropping them out of the sleeves on the hard floor.

 

[Naptown Rob]

Looks legit to me. I wouldn't personally pay much for it but someone might. I suspect there are enough Frampton signed covers out there that they aren't considered rare and valuable enough to be professionally 'authenticated'.

Nope. Google his signature. Not even close....

 

[bluesky]

It could be real. Just look up Framptons autograph on Google or Yahoo Image. Even on eBay.

I just bought 300 CDs from my brother's neighbor ($100, she just wanted to get rid of em, all 70s good stuff, one MFSL CD moving pictures). Bought them for my brother. 2 of the CDs were autographed and dedicated to the musician lady who owned the CDs so I figured that these were pretty special to her so I just gave them back to her. Guess she forgot. She was pretty happy about that. Her eyes lit up. :>)

I'd say there's a very good chance the Frampton autograph is real. Just check it out. If it looks like the same writing...that's a very cool find!

My brother always used to work in used music equipment stores in many states. He was working for a fairly heavy weight guitar luthier and he told my brother to clean out the back storeroom which had been buried 'deep in stuff' for mega years. At the bottom of the pile my brother found a framed autographed old poster by BB King!, along with another 'gem'. The owner said he could have the poster and sold him the 'other vintage Gibson instrument' for $1000 which was really dirt cheap. My brother gave me the poster. Is the autograph real??? Of course...maybe. Why not??!! ( It's real ).

Many people have autographed LP covers on the insides...out of sight, out of mind.

 

[dumptruck]

yeah looks like probably not:

 

[JonL]

Real or not, I doubt it's very valuable. Most artists will spend 10 or 15 minutes after a show signing anything and everything their fans put before them.

 

[Arkay]

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My brother always used to work in used music equipment stores in many states. He was working for a fairly heavy weight guitar luthier and he told my brother to clean out the back storeroom which had been buried 'deep in stuff' for mega years. At the bottom of the pile my brother found a framed autographed old poster by BB King!, along with another 'gem'. The owner said he could have the poster and sold him the 'other vintage Gibson instrument' for $1000 which was really dirt cheap. My brother gave me the poster. Is the autograph real??? Of course...maybe. Why not??!! ( It's real ).

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I KNOW the BB King signature on my CD is absolutely an authentic signature. How do I know? Because he signed it right in front of me, in person! I wish I'd had an album of his with me at the time, to get signed. Still, a CD is nice, too.

I have easily two dozen signed LPs and CDs, some obtained secondhand, and others signed in my presence, for the asking. A lot of people don't mind at all signing things, as long as they aren't checks...

Years ago, I had over a hundred signatures of famous entertainers, many of them obtained in one go from the widow of a major writer of screenplays, first for Vaudeville, then for Hollywood. A lot of them were in the form of hand-written (or sometimes typed) correspondence between him and the stars who were in things he'd written, some thank-you notes, apologies, etc... Also had a box of scripts he'd written, some incomplete, some never produced, and a few that made it on screen. I later added some interesting collectible signatures to that pile, including a letter from Karl Doenitz that I later learned was worth some money. I had an album signed by Woody Herman and every single member of his "Thundering Heard" who played on it (I got each of them to sign it when they played at my High School, and others, too.) Cool stuff, until it was all lost when my family home burned. :sigh:

 

[bluesky]

I KNOW the BB King signature on my CD is absolutely an authentic signature. How do I know? Because he signed it right in front of me, in person! I wish I'd had an album of his with me at the time, to get signed. Still, a CD is nice, too.

I have easily two dozen signed LPs and CDs, some obtained secondhand, and others signed in my presence, for the asking. A lot of people don't mind at all signing things, as long as they aren't checks...

Years ago, I had over a hundred signatures of famous entertainers, many of them obtained in one go from the widow of a major writer of screenplays, first for Vaudeville, then for Hollywood. A lot of them were in the form of hand-written (or sometimes typed) correspondence between him and the stars who were in things he'd written, some thank-you notes, apologies, etc... Also had a box of scripts he'd written, some incomplete, some never produced, and a few that made it on screen. I later added some interesting collectible signatures to that pile, including a letter from Karl Doenitz that I later learned was worth some money. I had an album signed by Woody Herman and every single member of his "Thundering Heard" who played on it (I got each of them to sign it when they played at my High School, and others, too.) Cool stuff, until it was all lost when my family home burned. :sigh:

Ohhhhh. I feel for ya and really understand your loss.

When I was in the Navy my Dad's apartment got robbed. We are just 'regular folks' but had some outstanding collections of autographs, coins, stamps, my brother's TOTL music equipment (Les Pauls etc. - Just one of em goes for $30G plus now). All gone. At the time the stuff wasn't anything real special, not real expensive. All the autographs were free.

One of my autographed 5x7 black and white post card photos I had now sells for $80,000 'plus' at Sothbeys. What a termendious loss. Yeah, I (we) lost 'big time' for a working class family. I wish my dad would of told me to put that 'stuff' in a safety deposit box, but I don't blame him, it was a robbery for the music equipment and they took everything, even home family movies.

Sorry to hear about your mishap, I really do feel for ya. To have it, and then to lose it, it's too much really, too hard to mentally handle. I know.

 

[VROBERTSON]

I'm pretty sure it isn't worth much, even if it is authentic, but I was thinking about framing it and hanging it in the music room, but didn't really care to display a "fake". Does anyone have an idea of a place or resource that might be able to validate it for me?

 

[KrisM]

You guys are amateurs. Nothing is more valuable than my autographed copy of Cosimo Filane's I'm Gonna Try It Again, featuring the #1 hit; That's A "No No!".
I did just miss out on getting BB King to sign the gig poster when I saw him a few years ago. I waited by the bus and was told he was going to come out after he rested for a while, but he was in rough shape and went straight to his bus.
My dad had a hockey stick signed by the complete Detroit Red Wings team from one of their early Stanley Cup years. But he got into an argument with my grandfather and good old gramps gave it away. It would have been mine eventually. :sigh: Somebody got lucky. I hope they didn't play street hockey with it.

 

[Montycat]

You guys are amateurs. Nothing is more valuable than my autographed copy of Cosimo Filane's I'm Gonna Try It Again, featuring the #1 hit; That's A "No No!".

Amateur?! What about the copy of the first Anne Murray album (the one with Snowbird on it) that I not only had her sign before I gave it back to the owner of Zulu Records from whom I borrowed it...but she told me that the photographer got the shy young small town girl to smile for the photo by telling her there was a condom floating in the stream beside her! :thmbsp: