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Fakes from ebay-seller the_ink_gallery

Hi!

Would really appreciate your help on these autographs that´s been offered by ebay seller "the_ink_gallery"! Please let me know if you think they are good or bad!

Thanks for helping!

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Permalink Reply by Cogo on April 22, 2014 at 7:59pm

Thanks everyone for helping!

The sad thing is that he made $350 of the 3 fakes shown above...

I changed this threads title to get hits if someone googles him, and I reported him to ebay! You´re welcome to do the same if you´re up to it...

Thanks once again!

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Permalink Reply by Carl Ryan on April 22, 2014 at 9:06pm

I will follow suit Don.

This is scary. To experienced collectors like you guys, the autograph flaws can be recognized, but in my opinion, these are pretty good fakes. Of the signatures i was familiar with, none were terribly far off. In fact some, were convincing, at least to a novice like me.

What is so scary is that these are good enough attempts that he could sell this type of material all day long, every day of the year. And even collectors that do there research will probably get fooled. This person has skill in my opinion. Not good at all

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Permalink Reply by Cogo on April 22, 2014 at 9:17pm

Yes, this is not the ordinary kitchen-table forgeries...

Hopefully more members will follow and report him, because he will for sure fool a lot of people with theses "good" forgeries!

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Permalink Reply by dexter krieger on April 23, 2014 at 12:48pm

Don, if you think $350 for those 3 fakes is a lot, he got $305 (US dollars) just for this single Robert Plant and Jimmy Page paper sheet/card.

http://www.ebay.com/itm/221406591238

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Permalink Reply by dexter krieger on April 22, 2014 at 9:24pm

The Roger Waters signature looks like the seller mimicked it off another signature found on the Roger Waters website and just winged it with the ending downward swaying line leading after the s in Waters.

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Permalink Reply by Cogo on April 22, 2014 at 9:31pm

Dexter, you´re probably right. Nice catch!

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Permalink Reply by al martin on April 23, 2014 at 11:31am

Britney is a blatant fake.

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Permalink Reply by dexter krieger on April 23, 2014 at 1:07pm

I noticed this seller always lists the auction description text and additional info as one .jpg image file, then after the listings end, paid for my the customer, he'll then delete the created .jpg file from the file server he uses, so that there's no trace of it. The only thing that is left behind on the eBay listing, is the auction title and the thumbnail preview of the item up in the top left corner.