The Lugosi SPc I sold now with a different photo attached?. Disturbing pastiche warning. Originality & context cast aside, or is it entirely fake?

This makes me sick. To think someone would do this...to those that know it also looks ridiculous because this photograph was never used for these later cards! Now it is a modern pastiche with a challenged signature. But is it as challenged before? Nothing disclosed by the seller about that. :-(

There is one less original vintage unmolested Lugosi in the world. Now I wish I gave it to a young collector.

The original as held and signed by Bela Lugosi:

The modern pastiche/altered/"custom" card...is the signature "restored" as well? Altered and smudged is not a good combination I think. Originality over eye appeal any day of the week.

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Permalink Reply by Eric Keith Longo on October 13, 2024 at 9:29am

Agreed, I would not mind writing it:

"Once desirable and original vintage Bela Lugosi signed photograph, now altered/washed to a lower contrast and recently clipped and attached to a seemingly more profitable photo..."