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<p>[QUOTE="gsalexan, post: 1133273, member: 24274"]I've been tracking a number of lots posted recently by a California dealer. He's taken a set of American Bank Note Archive portfolios and artfully trimmed them into individual vignettes. These have been listed separately with no attribution to where they originated, just that they are "intaglio prints." </p><p><br /></p><p>Most of these sold for about what I estimate they are worth, a dollar or two. But a couple reprints of Chinese stamps went for $406 and $256. Collectively, that's about what the entire portfolio series is worth -- six sets of 12 panels each. I'm sure the buyers thought they were getting some rare undiscovered proofs. I know there's a general "buyer beware" attitude on eBay, but what's the ethical responsibility of a dealer to accurately describe his material if he knows? This has come up before in relation to banknotes being trimmed out of souvenir cards.</p><p><br /></p><p><a href="http://cgi.ebay.com/AMERICAN-BANK-NOTE-Co-ENGRAVING-CHINA-WAR-REFUGEES-/120697635360?pt=LH_DefaultDomain_0&hash=item1c1a23c220" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="http://cgi.ebay.com/AMERICAN-BANK-NOTE-Co-ENGRAVING-CHINA-WAR-REFUGEES-/120697635360?pt=LH_DefaultDomain_0&hash=item1c1a23c220" rel="nofollow">http://cgi.ebay.com/AMERICAN-BANK-NOTE-Co-ENGRAVING-CHINA-WAR-REFUGEES-/120697635360?pt=LH_DefaultDomain_0&hash=item1c1a23c220</a></p><p><br /></p><p><a href="http://cgi.ebay.com/AMERICAN-BANK-NOTE-Co-ENGRAVING-CHINA-100-1946-/110661185517?pt=LH_DefaultDomain_0&hash=item19c3ebafed" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="http://cgi.ebay.com/AMERICAN-BANK-NOTE-Co-ENGRAVING-CHINA-100-1946-/110661185517?pt=LH_DefaultDomain_0&hash=item19c3ebafed" rel="nofollow">http://cgi.ebay.com/AMERICAN-BANK-NOTE-Co-ENGRAVING-CHINA-100-1946-/110661185517?pt=LH_DefaultDomain_0&hash=item19c3ebafed</a>[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>
[QUOTE="gsalexan, post: 1133273, member: 24274"]I've been tracking a number of lots posted recently by a California dealer. He's taken a set of American Bank Note Archive portfolios and artfully trimmed them into individual vignettes. These have been listed separately with no attribution to where they originated, just that they are "intaglio prints." Most of these sold for about what I estimate they are worth, a dollar or two. But a couple reprints of Chinese stamps went for $406 and $256. Collectively, that's about what the entire portfolio series is worth -- six sets of 12 panels each. I'm sure the buyers thought they were getting some rare undiscovered proofs. I know there's a general "buyer beware" attitude on eBay, but what's the ethical responsibility of a dealer to accurately describe his material if he knows? This has come up before in relation to banknotes being trimmed out of souvenir cards. [url]http://cgi.ebay.com/AMERICAN-BANK-NOTE-Co-ENGRAVING-CHINA-WAR-REFUGEES-/120697635360?pt=LH_DefaultDomain_0&hash=item1c1a23c220[/url] [url]http://cgi.ebay.com/AMERICAN-BANK-NOTE-Co-ENGRAVING-CHINA-100-1946-/110661185517?pt=LH_DefaultDomain_0&hash=item19c3ebafed[/url][/QUOTE]
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