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Beatles autographs?

  • 28-12-2015 11:42pm
    #1
    asteroids over berlin
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    Hi,

    I was given an autograph book with all members of the beatles autographs (1963), the signatures were signed on what looks like the inside of a cigarrette boxes and then stuck in, the night of some tv program in 1963. All the other bands that played on it are also in the book, again stuck in - ciggy box cardboard etc.

    Would these be worth much? I believe the book was bought at auction a decade or 2 ago. No receipt (dont yhink).
    I am not looking to sell it, just wondering. Thanks


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  • #2
    coylemj
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 25,626 ✭✭✭✭coylemj


    The absence of provenance (you have no first-hand account of how they were obtained) and the scrappy nature of them would suggest they'd have limited value. They're effectively separate autographs since they were pasted into that book on pieces of paper whereas they'd have much better value as a collection if they were all on a single document like a concert program or an LP sleeve.

    Not worth much is my opinion.


  • #3
    asteroids over berlin
    Closed Accounts Posts: 1,115 ✭✭✭asteroids over berlin


    cheers, i figured it would be devalued but i thought Lennon's autograph was hard to come by. anyway, i'll sit on it for a few decades ha


  • #4
    coylemj
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 25,626 ✭✭✭✭coylemj


    asteroids over berlin wrote: »
    cheers, i figured it would be devalued but i thought Lennon's autograph was hard to come by. anyway, i'll sit on it for a few decades ha

    The Beatles had their first hit in 1962 and Lennon was murdered in 1980 - that's 18 years during which he and they were famous. If Lennon only signed an average of one autograph a day during that period, that's 6,500 autographs.

    It's hardly a rare commodity.


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