I paid 5 pounds for an old oil painting at a carboot sale because I knew it was worth more.. I got it appraised in London and it was worth 6 pounds.. Not bad, huh.
itsahardlifewhenyourreneverwrong ....i got a small matchbox car complete with its box at a car boot sale for about 25p......turned out it was a very rare model so i sent it to auction and got £275 for it..........no bad eh?
Real museum experts get duped all the time. The people who make these " reproductions" are as talented as their ancestors. That's why there is such a huge uproar these days about provenance, ownership records, and archeological theft. That girl bought a lovely "authentic" reproduction. In thirty years or so it will be worth much more than she paid for it. And for now she has a nice shelf ornament.
There seem to be a lot of effort to make fake antique bronzes right. It does not have the refinment and aura of the real ones but apparently more than half the bronze statues in museum over the world are fake. I recommend watching the DW video on youtube on it.
You can see with great delight that she is genuinely interested and is besotted with every word he is saying. I’d also say she was possibly flirting a little. Delightful girl and I hope she has a successful career in buying Chinese artifices
It is a "fake" only insofar as it is not an ancient artifact. It is actually a very lovely object, real cast bronze, and I would have that for 30 pounds. Though, my mother being a little bit superstitious would probably not like to have a burial item displayed in the home!
I bought what I thought was the holey grail for $1.27c but when I filled it with wine all the wine leaked out so it wasn’t the holey grail it just had a lot of holes in it.
She's a real London character. Salt of the earth, as we say. A great relief to hear English spoken well - and NOT over accentuated as some poor blighter had the temerity to claim.
I remember hearing a story about forgers of ancient coins who would force ducks or geese to swallow the coin and the end result would be a perfectly aged coin...
Nice...but the girl, though honestly flushed, should have 'shut-the-Hell-up'; and let the appraiser finish what he was trying to explain to her--- that the quality of this forgery, is so great, that in 20 or 30 years, it to, will be worth far more than she paid. For the Craftsmanship involved, will have passed away.
The biggest fake here is her story, wondering around sunday afternoon market caught my eye in a box of junk owner wasnt interested, yet asked £50 for it. The good items up for sale labelled and on display are rarely priced at £50. How she really obtained it might be a more interesting story. Like some elderly neighbours mantlepiece and saying " oh i love that, where did you get it, and be told by the confused elderly person, i think it came from a market stall years ago.. I dont really like it.. ok ill give you a tenner for it, skips off down the street and planning a world cruise
I could hardly hear what the guy was saying, couldn't enjoy or focus on the conversation, due to her constant interrupting and making theatrical movements every time the fellow tried to finish a sentence! I'm pretty sure that beyond being irritating/ melodramatic, she's high on something
that's typically british, keeping up with the apparences. So what if it's a fake, it doesn't mean the person is diminished unless he/she was greedy to startup with.
I'd be asking how he knows the difference. Is it because the odds of it being real are low or because he can see something about it. With a million pounds at stake I would need to know.
with bronze objects -it's all in the patina- fake oxidation/corrosion doesn't penetrate as deeply into the surface. First clue is the all-over uniformity of colour
She is annoying. She didn't like the object so much, but was thinking what it was worth. And even finding it was not what she thought age-wise, still annoying. Ugh.
