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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;daveydempsey, post: 10281887, member: 22&quot;]I knew a guy in the UK over 30 years ago, let&#039;s call him Dodgy Mike<img src="styles/default/xenforo/smilies/rolleyes.png" class="mceSmilie" alt=":rolleyes:" unselectable="on" /></p><p><br /></p><p>He had a bad start in life, but had a handwriting talent I have never seen before or since.</p><p>He was not a known villain.</p><p><br /></p><p>Bear in mind in my previous employ, I used to deal with forgers, thieves, counterfeiters, murderers and just about every bad bastard that existed.</p><p><br /></p><p>When I became involved in antiques and collectables, I used to sell him Beatles memorabilia in the early 90&#039;s</p><p><br /></p><p>If you shoved a piece of paper and a pen or pencil in front of him whilst having a conversation, you came away with the exact copy signatures of all the Beatles, Mick Jagger, Eric Clapton, Madonna, JFK etc, etc.</p><p><br /></p><p>I know for a fact that he used to fly from the UK to Dallas and sat on the plane signing Beatles posters, LP’s and singles and come home with around $100K a few days later<img src="styles/default/xenforo/smilies/rolleyes.png" class="mceSmilie" alt=":rolleyes:" unselectable="on" /></p><p><br /></p><p>Pre Internet, I showed him a section of the &quot;Millers Collectables Guide&quot; on Pop memorabilia autographs.</p><p><br /></p><p>His perusal resulted in Real, Fake, Fake, Mine, Fake, Real, Mine. Mine, Real etc etc<img src="styles/default/xenforo/smilies/biggrin.png" class="mceSmilie" alt=":D" unselectable="on" /></p><p>He was a bit like the guy in &quot;Catch Me if You can&quot; Frank Abagnale</p><p><br /></p><p>Last I heard, his now ex missus grassed him up, and he was jailed for fraud and deception</p><p><br /></p><p>I only own two autographs, both from famous British actors, one I witnessed in the 90&#039;s and the other my Auntie obtained in the 30’s[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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