Very true..
a Certificate of Authenticity from well respected auction houses or
dealers which verify the item, its provenance, and any amount of
restoration or re-creation (as well as WHO did the work) would of
course, be vital. Include an appraisal, as well, like that given,
when a piece of fine art is bought.
i think the discussion veered to run of the mill dealers and sellers
who might issue a COA--those arent worth the paper they are printed on.
Jeff
On Sep 1, 2009, at 9:21 PM, James Richard wrote:
Red Herring Alert! Red Herring Alert!
As far as I know, NOBODY proposed issuing COAs for posters, and yet
suddenly we have a full blown "discussion" dissing COAs and talking
about how useless they are as if someone *had* made such a proposal.
Hmmm... what's up with that?
A signed statement from a recognized poster expert stating that he/
she had examined a specific poster carefully and concluded that in
their best opinion that poster is authentic and original with
_______ amount of restoration is NOTHING LIKE a typical useless COA.
Obviously, to someone who actually is an recognized expert in this
field, like Todd or Sean or Bruce or whomever, such a verification
statement is not necessary, but the verification statement would
not be for their benefit. Were they the ones who were sold the $2
million worth of fakes over the last several years? No. In fact, I
should think it would be obvious that people like Todd or Sean or
Bruce and others are in fact the "recognized experts" who would be
the ones making the verifications. Who said anything about ignorant
self-styled experts being employed? What good would that do?
Boy, y'all are going to a lot of trouble to twist a simple proposal
for full disclosure and independent verification of certain
specific very pricey posters into something else so you can
discredit it. I'd think I was in a session of Congress rather than
MOPO.
One more time: We're talking about what responsibilities the
auction houses/dealers have (or should have) to reliably and
publicly verify that a very pricey product is in fact genuine
*before* they sell it to non-experts.
We're talking about taking the burden of proof off of the buyer and
putting it on the seller, where it belongs.
Funny how everyone keeps wanting to talk around that point and
change the subject.
-- JR
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