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Topic: 261092643292: Neil Armstrong signed lithograph
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jkfunke
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posted 09-08-2012 07:35 AM
   
Can you tell if it this is authentic vs autosigned? |
ApolloAlex
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posted 09-08-2012 08:16 AM
I wouldnt touch it with a barge pole to be fair! |
jemmy
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posted 09-08-2012 11:31 AM
The seller of this very questionable Armstrong is a cS member |
jkfunke
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posted 09-08-2012 01:34 PM
What is cS? |
Robert Pearlman
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posted 09-08-2012 02:45 PM
cS is shorthand for collectSPACE. |
Spacefest
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From: Tucson, AZ
Registered: Jan 2009
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posted 09-08-2012 04:01 PM
It's good. Not the greatest contrast, though.
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mjanovec
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Registered: Jul 2005
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posted 09-08-2012 11:34 PM
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Originally posted by Spacefest:
It's good.
I have some serious doubts about this signature that would prevent me from investing in it. The terrible-looking Walt Cunningham signature the seller is also offering doesn't do anything to lessen those concerns. |
gliderpilotuk
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posted 09-09-2012 03:17 AM
So hard to say: the combination of a thick-ish pen and really poor contrast make filtering out some of the key validating traits impossible. if I were the seller I would have posted some contrast-adjusted close-ups so that you can make a better judgement. Without this I'd not bid. |
jemmy
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posted 09-09-2012 09:48 AM
Came across this reprint, which looks exactly the same.
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Steve Zarelli
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From: Upstate New York, USA
Registered: Mar 2001
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posted 09-09-2012 09:57 AM
There are a number of these reprint sellers who steal high res images from other ebay auctions, message boards and RR Auction. Irritating bottom feeders.If you report the auction and provide a link to where it was stolen from, ebay will remove the auction. However, it's like trying to shovel back the tide. |
gliderpilotuk
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From: London, UK
Registered: Feb 2002
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posted 09-09-2012 11:09 AM
I have my suspicions that not all of these reprints are "stolen". I believe a few buyers of originals copy them to try to recover some cost.That's not to say that it isn't a pretty "cheap" practice, especially when the fact that it is a reprint is not in the title of the listing, or, as we have seen, the bottom-feeders trying to sell Armstrong reprints for hundreds of dollars. |
Spacefest
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From: Tucson, AZ
Registered: Jan 2009
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posted 09-09-2012 09:38 PM
Reprints are hard enough to tell in person, impossible on cS. I saw this one on a cS member's site. Turned out, the seller was not him. This is why. |
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