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Posted By: Mark Steinberg

Did more homework on this... For those of you who can access the Halper Sale Catalogue, this piece was Lot # 2208. It realized a whopping $19,950.

The Halper piece did indeed have a chip out of the lower left corner and some apparent water damage just above that. The fake piece pictured above has a similar but definitely different flaw in this area. I am sure that the fake pictured above was copied from the Halper example.

I did see this exact fake on Ebay about half a dozen times, 12 - 18 months ago. In the beginning, they were going for around $2,000, but as more and more people caught on, they sold in the $500 - $750 range. I even saw one close for only $120 (which was about $119 more than it's worth!) I have not seen this particular fake on Ebay for about a year now...

Hope this info is helpful.