I am currently auctioning inserts, and when I gathered up all the hundreds
of inserts that I have been consigned, I discovered I had been sent FIVE
different "Scarface" ones (the Pacino version). Close examination of them
determined that four of them are "minty whites", the fake inserts that have
polluted our hobby (see past MoPo e-mails or my E-Mail Club Archive or the
LAMP site for more on these fakes).I will be returning those fake inserts to
their owners, with the plea that they don't consign them to another auction
(or put them on eBay).
But this was a great chance to look at the fakes very closely! Of course,
they can be distinguished from the known original from their trademark
"whiter than white" paper, and their glossier back side. But what is
interesting to me is that when they are laid side by side, the lousy
printing of the minty white becomes painfully obvious. They were clearly NOT
printed from the original plates (as has sometime been speculated) but
instead were made by photographing a known original, because the fine
shadings in some areas are blurry or "filled in", as would be expected when
you reproduce an original.
Unfortunately, this would not jump out at most people when they solely look
at the minty white fake. But when you look at *BOTH* the minty white fake
and the proven original, those printing differences would be obvious to
anyone (except maybe Professor Powers).
Have the minty white fakes killed the value of the proven originals? The
Scarface insert I am auctioning is currently at $246. so that is clearly not
the case!
Bruce
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