H0llyw00d
Sr Member
I've been thinking a lot about this recently and I believe it will become more of an issue that we will have to address at some point, and preferably sooner than later. With the plethora of well-meant knowledge to be gained on the forum we've seen how nefarious people have tried to capitalize on civilian's emotions to sell them purported "screen-used" pieces and some of them have almost or actually squeezed through the cracks.
I was reading this article:
https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/features/seedy-underworld-movie-memorabilia-1117268
And we've all seen this in action... Ripley's still chooses to believe rather than not.
What if we had a staff-moderated acknowledgement so that people could bring their examples here for us to review if they are thinking about buying a "screen-used" SW prop? If the fine art world had what amounted to the counterfeiters' guild willing to say "Oh, yeah, that's the real thing" I think it would carry some weight.
Just thought I would throw that out there and see what you guys think.
I was reading this article:
https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/features/seedy-underworld-movie-memorabilia-1117268
And we've all seen this in action... Ripley's still chooses to believe rather than not.
What if we had a staff-moderated acknowledgement so that people could bring their examples here for us to review if they are thinking about buying a "screen-used" SW prop? If the fine art world had what amounted to the counterfeiters' guild willing to say "Oh, yeah, that's the real thing" I think it would carry some weight.
Just thought I would throw that out there and see what you guys think.