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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