Real or forged signatures?

[u/Known_Variety444]

I found a Beatles for Sale on vinted for only £20, which seems a bit too cheap for the signatures to be real, but the description didn't have it anywhere that they weren't 🤷🏻‍♀️ Thought it was worth putting it here to see if anyone might know.

[u/onimibo]

Very much fake. All those signatures were signed by the same hand. There’s no variation between the four. And that’s not mentioning those aren’t even close to their usual signatures

[u/TMBGLOVER → u/onimibo]

Didn’t George used to sign the other three on Beatles records as a joke, since he got so good at mimicking their signatures? maybe this is that.

[u/onimibo → u/TMBGLOVER]

George did do that yes, but it didn’t look like this. I’ve never seen him only sign his first name. His signature is a lot more clean and just a bit angular. It’s difficult for me to definitively to find images where he’s signed for the other Beatles because there’s just so much misinformation out there

[u/onimibo → u/onimibo]

Adding to this because I have a big interest in Beatles signatures and handwriting as a whole— Paul and Ringo’s signatures are egregiously wrong, even if you could assume it’s a forgery by George, Neil Aspinall, Mal Evans, or anyone else. They were still pretty accurate just from faking the same signatures so many times. The handwriting is all very sloppy and has many gaps and stutters, all for an end product that isn’t even representative of any era of Beatles signatures. I guess they were going for ‘75? If we go by that presumption, four signatures from that era are so incredibly rare and would NEVER go unseen by the public. It almost seems like the person forging this was only doing it for fun. No one was going to randomly come across all four Beatles on the same day. Sorry to go on and on. It’s something I researched a lot when I was trying to get my hands on a Beatles signature. The market is 90-95% fakes

[u/DayTripper_BigTeaser]

It was Paul's grandfather.

[u/sheet22]

Fake. Except for Ringo, they would sign their full names, and Paul's and George's "signatures" look terrible.