By all means, let's talk about it. I figured it was just a matter of
time before something like this happened, with the volatile combination
of high-tech reproduction techniques and ever-present human greed. The
vintage guitar market is flooded with "faux-vintage" instruments,
"distressed" by experts at the factory; why not posters?
Details, Phil?
Greg Douglass
Phil Edwards wrote:
Oh, and I'll just add, having any idea of a minty white from a real
one via a tiny website pic is a problem unless it's one of the odd
ones that have some small art crop differential... and you are aware
of it.
So novice collectors, know your dealers and if you don't make sure you
get a right of return to cover your minty behinds.
Now shall we talk about serious fraud - like distressing a repro
vintage 22x28 and trying to pass it off as an original for several
thousand dollars?
Phil
----- Original Message -----
*From:* Bruce Hershenson <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
*To:* [email protected]
<mailto:[email protected]>
*Sent:* Thursday, October 09, 2008 10:26 PM
*Subject:* [MOPO] Interesting to see a minty white and a known
original side by side!
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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