sabi Posted March 28, 2022 Report Posted March 28, 2022 Someone really bought into the story on this piece, hopefully it wasn't one of our members! https://page.auctions.yahoo.co.jp/jp/auction/v1043655253 *Closed at 280k Y for when the link eventually doesn't work. 1 Quote
Curran Posted March 28, 2022 Report Posted March 28, 2022 There was a lot of spin on that one. Proper to call it some wicked googly? 1 Quote
sabi Posted March 28, 2022 Author Report Posted March 28, 2022 I was a little surprised to see it at 50k with a couple days left. Noticed there were a ton of watchers and just had to keep the tab open. These types of pieces usually fizzle out around there and I was absolutely stunned to refresh yesterday and see it go for well over two grand USD. It's not even a particularly good fake. Gaudily overdone surface treatment that you don't see in real work, the mei is a swing and a miss and the Higo-esque worm grooves thrown in there just 'cause? Quote
Curran Posted March 29, 2022 Report Posted March 29, 2022 Well, yes, seen a lot of that on Yahoo!Japan Total BS pump n dump situations. Rather a lot of them. Yet once or twice in a while, something goes under radar. To my own surprise, I picked up a rather excellent Rakuju last year. Someone did far better than me, picking up a Hayashi Matashichi at about 1/8th what it would go for if the NBTHK papers it correctly. That is a big IF these days.... Quote
Soshin Posted March 30, 2022 Report Posted March 30, 2022 The closing price of $280 sounds reasonable to me... I really cannot see any detail in the photos (this is likely a good thing). LOL Quote
FZ1 Posted March 30, 2022 Report Posted March 30, 2022 The old trick when your "significant other" asks what you paid for it: "It was only 280" (and mumbled in a whisper "thousand") 1 Quote
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