Post #541261 by Baron von Tiki on Thu, Jul 8, 2010 1:58 AM

On 2010-07-07 23:25, pdrake wrote:
if you have art experience? wtf?

you don't offer precedence with your high end sales?

i'm sorry, i roll really easy with stuff, but that's a dick thing to say. basically you're saying, "if you don't know your shit, too bad."

i'm not saying it's not real, but . . . come on, don't be condescending.

boooo . . .

A long time ago, I saw a PBS special on renaissance art forgeries. There's big money to be made in them and the forgers are masters at it. In the special, one former art forger actually demonstrated how a forgery was made. Then, his product was taken by the documentary people to a third-party expert to have it "authenticated."

In the end, the forgery was caught. But it wasn't because the experts knew their stuff. The forgery was visually indistinguishable from the original. The forgery was discovered because chemical analysis proved that the forger used modern machine-manufactured paints -- something that can only be seen at the microscopic level.

But, hey: If someone can authenticate a piece of art through low-res photos on eBay, without actually having the piece in front of him, more power to him. Besides, who would fake a Leeteg ?

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[ Edited by: Baron von Tiki 2010-07-08 02:04 ]