On Feb 1, 2004, at 7:40 PM, Per-Olof Karlsson wrote:
Did anyone see this auction?
http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll? ViewItem&category=11050&item=3075606212
Seems pretty peculiar to me.. Why would somebody have 10 copies of these
thingies?? Apparently he's had more of these auctions out as well,
suggesting he's got at least 10, possibly more. Smells fake all over if you
ask me, eh?? I'm no Ultima expert so I can't see if the pic looks suspicious
or not, perhaps somebody can?
First off, he might have screwed up the auction listing. It happens to us all. ;-)
The four runes on the left look correct. I can't tell from the photo about the runes on the right. One should be an I and the other should be |` (that is, a upright I with a serif descending from the top to the right). That doesn't necessarily mean anything either way, though. Anyone with a set plus the availability of some aluminum and a stamp could easily churn out fakes.
The cloth map itself looks right at first glance. That would almost certainly be genuine as the cost to making them is hideous. Richard Garriott has said that economic pressures cause folks to want to eliminate the map and that Origin always "burned" the map makers. That is, the map makers discovered that the maps were always a losing proposition and never did them again.
--
Edward Franks
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