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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;all_fakes, post: 342077, member: 55&quot;]From the first post in this thread.</p><p><br /></p><p>Paintings are not &quot;published.&quot;&nbsp; This is the printing found on the prints known to have been published in 1899 by Arthur Ackermann. If an item carries a label saying it has been published by a known publisher of prints, then it is a print.&nbsp;&nbsp; Maybe there was an edition of hand-colored versions; maybe someone painted over it trying to enhance the value, or trying to fool others - but it is still a print; and the fact that it varies from known copies of the print does not enhance the value; quite the opposite, in fact.</p><p>&nbsp; &nbsp; I once had a correspondent try to convince me that he had a totem-pole that was hand-carved stone; and when I pointed out that it carried the cast-in logo of a manufacturer of cast totems, and thus had to be a cast item, he responded that perhaps the artist had carved that wording on the single unique original model for the castings.&nbsp; I pointed out that it also had a sticker from a Seattle shop known to have sold the castings in question; he responded that perhaps they had also sold the original carving.</p><p>I located a past manager of the shop in question, who identified the item as a casting, one of hundreds they had sold in the 1960s, though they had never sold originals by that artist....still not convincing enough.</p><p>I realized two things:&nbsp; 1) he would certainly try to sell the item for thousands of dollars as an original; and 2) I was wasting my time trying to convince him of anything.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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