THE STONE ROSES ARE AMONGST MY BIGGEST PASSIONS IVE BEEN AN AVID COLLECTOR OF STONE  ROSES AUTOGRAPHS/RAREITIES OF ALL KINDS FOR YEARS!+ HAVE A HUGE COLLECTION ,IM ALWAYS ON THE LOOK OUT 4 ITEMS TO BUY AND OFTEN SELL ROSES ITEMS BUT AS IM TRAWLING EBAY ETC IM GETTING MADDER & MADDER AS THE MONTHS GO BY WITH SELLERS PEDLING OUT MASS PRODUCE AUTOGRAPHS BUYING GUITAR TAB BOOKS AND SELLING EVERY PAGE IN IT SIGNED! & ID LIKE TO WARN PEOPLE OF THESE BLOODY SIGNED MUSIC SHEETS + DOUBLE SIGNED CDS PHOTOS ETC THEYRES BEEN AN NEVER ENDING SUPPLY OF OVER THE LAST 3 YEARS OR SO FROM THE SAME PEOPLE , PLEASE BE VERY WARY, BECOZ IN MOST CASES THESE ARE NOT GENUINE!(think about it if a seller was tryin to make money from getting items signed, why would he get the same item signed twice, it stands to reason u wouldnt, you would have anothr item signed instead to maximise your business profit,  makes no sense !** IVE QUESTIONED A LOT OF THESE AUTOGRAPH DEALERS REGARDING THIER SIGNATURES,,,&  THE FALSE RUBBISH/STORIES IVE BEEN TOLD THAT WERE MEANT TO BE CONVINCING ARE JUST A LAUGH,, IVE BEEN SPUN ALLSORTS! ! SO EXPECT AN ELABORATE STORY!  ***PLEASE DO NOT BE FOOLED BY C.O.As  theyre being offered willy nilly,+ ARNT WORTH THE PAPER THIER WRITTEN ON IN MOST CASES!  THEY DONT MEAN A THING, LOVELY LITTLE PICES OF PAPER CAN BE DESIGNED PRINTED AND SIGNED BY ANYONE for around 3 pence, just anothr way of conning buyers into believing items must be genuine! THINK ABOUT IN MOST CASES SIGNATURES ARE OBTAINED BY FANS, SO GENUINE ITEMS TEND NOT TO HAVE ANY C.O.A OF ANY KIND  ,***ALSO PLEASE DONT BE FOOLED by sellers stating that thier signatures are obtained by employees music representitives who do this for a living ON THIER BEHALFS ITS JUST A GREAT WAY OF SHIFTING BLAME etc,incase thier questioned on the when signed+ whereabouts signed of the item thier selling! IM NOT SAYING THIS IS THE CASE WITH ALL SIGNATURE DEALERS BUT IS WITH MOST *** in a few cases ive even read sellers stating ITEMS THEY WERE SELLING WERE OBTAINED IN PERSON BY REPRESENTATIVES ETC ON THIER BEHALF + to my disbelief SOME OF THESE ITEMS WERE PURCHASED FROM ME  IN EFFECT IVE CAUGHT THEM OUT! *  AND JUST BECOZ IT HAS  a high end buy now price doesnt mean its genuine!  ive seen fakes with a buy nows of  250.00-400.00 QUITE COMMON ACTUALLY,,AND JUST BECOZ A SELLER IS OFFERING LOADS OF SIGNED ITEMS OTHER BANDS ETC, DOESNT REALLY MEAN ANYTHING EITHER, AS MOST OR ALL OF THIER OTHER STUFF COULD BE FAKE ASWEL,QUESTION THESE SO CALLED DEALERS WITH LOADS OF AUCTIONS THUROGHLY UNTIL URE SATISFIED, IM ALWAYS WILLING TO HELP OUT ANYONE BY GIVING MY OPINION ON A ROSES/IAN BROWN AuTOGRAPH THEY HAVE OR IS CURRENTLY ON EBAY FOR SALE theyre thinking of buying, !    just drop me a line through ebay, + i will chek the item out for u and give an honest opinion on its authenticity as soon as im available to do so!       THANX TO JOHN(brummy),  TIM,(eira)  PAUL(glasgow), DAVEY FI AYR!, BEEBOY IN OHIO and,UNDOUBTDLY ONE OF THE CRAZIEST ROSES FANS i EVER HAD THE PLEASURE OF AQAINTING  THOMAS IN GERMANY- r.i.p friend  THANX TO BILL IN OHIO A TOP MAN!  thanx to john t at roses archive ;-) AND AMANDA IN AUSSIE THANX 4 ALL YOUR HELP AND INFO, keep those coming!