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Old 02-26-2014, 12:21 PM
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Default Ethical issues selling items you don't think are authentic

Hey, just wanted to get feedback from the collecting community. What if you have autographed items (mainly photos) that you feel are not authentic and you disclose them as such on ebay. Do you think it's still acceptable to try and sell them on ebay as long you state so?

The reason why I post this, is because I'm sure there are items that "experts" have deemed a forgery, but could have been the real deal (ie- just a bad, messy signature from the real guy). I have some items, which are definitely not exemplar, but there could be a small chance they are real. But as long as I state in the descriptions that they are not likely authentic, I'm wondering if people might still think it's ok to put them up on ebay.

I recently bought a signed photo of an actor from a dealer who said he thought the signature was a secretarial based solely on internet samples he researched. But I bought it because I know that actor's signature changed significantly over the course of years and that was an earlier example (plus the photo was an old original).

Any thoughts?
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