Bob, no offense, but WHAT THE HELL are you talking about?
What about the next person that buys the sign and the one after and so on, will they know it's a reproduction? Again, the question is, are the signs marked as reproductions??????
We jump on "vendors/sellers" all the time, for not marking signs, cans, globes... etc. Do the members here, get different "treatment"?
TO ANY MEMBERS HERE; that have purchased a sign from this gentleman in the past, are the signs they purchased marked? If so, please let me and others here know how they are marked? My question will then be answered.
In the past this "seller" has brought signs here and didn't mark them as reproductions, read past posts. When pressed about it, they shrugged it off as too expensive or too much trouble, yet mocked other members who said signs with wrong fonts were obvious fakes. Once they even marked a sign with an "engraving tool/drill", after the fact(IMO) when asked about how the signs are being marked. In the photos on this auction I can't see any markings. So again, I am asking? ARE THE SIGNS MARKED AS REPRODUCTIONS? The seller takes great pride in making his signs as close to original as possible, in fact going so far as to state;
"The last bears were put up in 1956. I do not know of any left in the wild. The last one anyone ever saw was a Bear 16 taken down in West Sacramento ... in 1982. Nowadays, a real Bear 1 from 1934-1956 will sell for well over a thousand dollars, if it shows up on eBay at all. Until that moment comes along, you can have this one to display on your wall and no one will know the difference until they stick their nose in it."
If he/they are making this sign to be as close to "original" as possible, according to their own words. Then are they marking the signs as being a reproduction? An easy question, yet so far no answer has been given.
