One of my bucket list things is to pickup a genuine trinket from an ancient civilization...a coin, statue etc from Rome, China, Persia etc that is legitimately over 2000 years old...
Would love to know where such items are sold LEGITIMATELY...its easy to find peddlers of fakes...
So here is one of three tanks you could drive away with from an auction in Maine. There are some bazookas and rocket launchers and a bunch of machine guns. But tanks!
BBC has a series - Fake or Fortune - dedicated to finding or validating 'lost' paintings. It's quite interesting with a lot of detective work involved. I recommend everyone to check it out.
Highlights of the auction will feature items from the legendary singer’s stellar career with iconic bands Rainbow, Black Sabbath and Dio including; several pieces of original album artwork including the acrylic painting by Barry Jackson used as the cover for the 1984 Dio album The Last in Line (estimate $20,000–$30,000); his pair of moon and stars patchwork jeans worn extensively on stage with Rainbow (estimate $2,000–$4,000); Dio’s custom made violet suede vest with tails and red leather shin guards worn on stage and in promotional photographs for the 1985 Sacred Heart Tour (estimate $2,000–$4,000); a personalized Black Sabbath hooded velour robe from the 1981 Mob Rules tour worn regularly back stage (estimate $1,000–$2,000); Dio’s personal rolling wardrobe case (estimate $800–$1,200); some of the most ambitious and spectacular stage design rock has ever seen with props such as a monumental animatronic sphinx on plinth base from the 1984 The Last In Line tour (estimate $2,000–4,000) and a massive animatronic dragon’s head from the 1985 Sacred Heart tour (estimate $3,000–5,000); an array of Dio’s studio and stage used instruments and gear such as a custom Charvel guitar featuring a one–of–a–kind wizard paint motif (estimate $3,000–$5,000); a 1978 "Gold" record award commemorating Australian sales of the Rainbow album Rising (estimate $600–$800) and a 1978 "Gold" record award for the album Rainbow: On Stage (estimate $600–$800) and much more.
BBC has a series - Fake or Fortune - dedicated to finding or validating 'lost' paintings. It's quite interesting with a lot of detective work involved. I recommend everyone to check it out.
This episode has a Canadian connection
That would be pretty frustrating. You trace all the material evidence, the paint, the canvas, the script on the back and everything back to the artist's studio and then some guy says, "Nope. It just doesn't feel right." So your million dollar painting is worth two hundred bucks.
We had a person buy a painting from my gallery and then sue us for fraud claiming it was fake. Another gallery that represented the artist in Toronto testified it was a fake. I guess the buyer forgot we had a photo of him and his wife with the artist in front of the painting at our exhibition in Calgary. Kind of hard to refute that evidence.
American Greed has a good episode of a forger who made upwards of 100 million by painting "the next great work" by famous artists. They finally busted him using modern paint. But often his paintings were better than the artist he was ripping off.