A Warning About Fakes


Buyers Beware!


Our items are not cheap - but we consider that they do offer excellent value for money. We buy in bulk from trusted suppliers in America, who we have been able to negotiate special discounts with. We truly do believe that it is not possible to sell authentic items for less. If you see someone selling items for cheaper ask yourself how and why? Are they likely to have met the celebrity in person? If not, how can they be selling the item so cheaply?

Authentic Sean Connery and Harrison Ford autographed photographs, to name but two, are worth a lot of money. They are rare signers, and as such are highly collectible pieces. The typical retail price for a genuine item signed by one of these men in America is $250 (depending upon the quality of the signature at the item which it is one). With the relationships that we have built up across the Atlantic we are sometimes able to obtain a slight discount on these prices, and can accordingly offer them to you a little cheaper than this. An authentic Connery or Ford is never going to be worth £30 though, yet we have seen photographs that are supposed to have been signed by these stars being sold for this.

We suggest that you be wary of those sellers who sell these autographs at such low levels and have seemingly never ending supplies of top stars. In all likelihood, their autographs will not be genuine. Indeed, some of the photographs that we have seen are hopeless fakes! They don not even look remotely like the authentic signature. It might well be that the seller does not realise this and has himself bought the item in good faith, but that does not change the fact that you will not be buying an authentic item. Remember many of our items come with photographic proof of the star signing - giving you the ultimate peace of mind.


Harrison Ford - approximate value of $250


The internet revolution has opened up a whole new realm of possibilities for collectors. Unfortunately the by-product of this has been a growth in authenticity problems.
In the USA the FBI has launched a major crackdown on the multi-million pound fake market - which is theft plain and simple. The FBI have given the following sobering warning:-

"While it is impossible to definitely estimate the percentage of forged memorabilia, most industry experts concede that over half of the autographed memorabilia is forged. In fact, some cooperating subjects and memorabilia experts believe that up to ninety percent of the memorabilia on the market is forged."

As philographers, we want to promote authentic collecting and we do not want you to waste your money on fakes. We do not want to unduly worry you, there are of course several good sellers on the internet, of which we like to think Autograph City are the best. We simply suggest that you always ask yourself two questions: Where has the seller got this item from? Is the sale/reserve price realistic or is it too low? You would be a little suspicious of someone who was selling a purported Picasso painting for a fraction of its true retail value - just exercise a sensible degree of caution.

First and foremost we are collectors who want to keep the hobby clean. Please make full use of our signature database before all of your autograph purchases. You should also feel free to ask us any questions you have about collecting.

1 x James Doohan Signed Scotty 8x10
2 x Joan Fontaine Signed Hitchcock's Suspicion Display
1 x Burgess Meredith The Penguin Signed Batman Display
2 x George Lazenby & Diana Rigg Signed OHMSS 8x10
1 x Margaret Kerry & Marc Davis Signed Tinkerbell Peter Pan 8x10
1 x Pink Panther Production Cel & Drawing - 2A
1 x Jim Carey Signed Truman Show Display
3 x Alan Cumming Signed Boris Grishenko Goldeneye Display
1 x Geoffrey Holder Signed Baron Samedi Display
2 x Gert Frobe Signed Auric Goldfinger Display
3 x Richard White Signed Gaston Beauty & The Beast Display
2 x Kiefer Sutherland Signed 24 Display
1 x Pink Panther Production Cel - Magician
2 x Katie Leung Signed Cho Chang 8x10
1 x Karen Allen Signed Raiders of the Lost Ark 8x10
1 x Judi Dench Signed M James Bond Casino Royale Display
1 x Radha Mitchell Signed Man On Fire 8x10
1 x Harold Perrineau Signed Michael Dawson Lost 8x10
1 x Anthony Zerbe Signed Milton Krest Licence to Kill Display
1 x Pink Panther Production Cel - Super Pink
1 x Harris Yulin Signed Roger Stanton 24 8x10
1 x Julian Glover Signed 007 FYEO 8x10
1 x Claire Danes & Damian Lewis Signed Homeland Display
1 x Sienna Miller Signed 8x10
1 x Norman Reedus Signed Daryl Dixon The Walking Dead 8x10
1 x Danny DeVito Signed The Penguin Batman Returns 8x10 (2)
1 x Pink Panther Production Cel & Drawing Display - 1A
1 x Matthew Lewis Signed Neville Harry Potter 8x10
1 x Judi Dench Signed M James Bond Display
1 x Barbara Jefford Signed From Russia With Love 8x10
1 x Cesar Romero Signed The Joker Batman Display 2A
1 x Fawlty Towers Signed Display - Cleese, Scales, Booth & Sachs
1 x Friz Freleng & Mel Blanc Signed Bugs Bunny Sericel Display
1 x Roger Moore Signed James Bond 007 Display
1 x Marc McClure Signed Jimmy Olsen Superman Display
2 x David Hedison Signed Felix Leiter James Bond Display
1 x Cesar Romero Signed The Joker Batman Display
1 x David Niven Signed The Dawn Patrol Cheque Display
1 x He-Man Rare Orko Production Cel
1 x Kenneth Branagh Signed Harry Potter Display
1 x Emma Thompson Signed Sense and Sensibility 8x10
1 x Sienna Miller Lovely Signed 8x10
1 x Warwick Davis Signed Professor Flitwick 8x10
1 x Martine Beswick Signed Thunderball 007 8x10 (2)
1 x Nicolette Sheridan Signed Desperate Housewives 8x10
1 x Louis Jourdan Signed Octopussy Display
1 x Frank Gorshin Signed The Riddler Batman Display
1 x Jane Seymour Signed Live & Let Die Display
1 x Jonathan Freeman Signed Jafar Aladdin Display
1 x Daryl Hannah Signed Kill Bill 8x10
1 x Pink Panther Production Cel - Romance
1 x Jonathan Freeman Signed Jafar Aladdin 8x10
1 x Robert Picardo Signed Star Trek Voyager 8x10
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