Urban Art Association

coa??

Ouch

thankyou fingerz it's nice to have a warm welcome

Just read the coa comment

Agreed. I think the thing to do is give it away as a gift. Did I mention I didn't get anything for Christmas?

If you would like to give it away I can send you my address. Just let me know.

Beautiful, special print there mate, I love it!

Seems mad (even as I write it) but I'm not sure I'd personally consider buying it though because of the coa problems. It feels wrong and bizarre saying that as the print is magic!.

What a strange obsession with coa's I/we have.

...from POW's/PC's reaction, it doesn't sound like they'd appreciate it being passed on so I'd imagine that any kind of proof, verbal or otherwise might be tricky.

Obvious thing to say, but I guess it just comes down to how much someone likes & will pay for it... interested to see how this one pans out, best of luck with it

in the past PC have given COA's to the person who was gifted the print but not once it was sold on, if you were given the print legitimately (and i have no reason to doubt that you weren't) then it should not be a problem.
alternatively a paper trail/provenance from the person who gifted it to you might help you achieve a reasonable price.

as it stands you have an un-editioned print, essentially a backdoor copy - in spite of the signature.
not worthless but relative to the main run, very much so.

i have to agree with POW, it's an amazing print and i know people often have finacial problems and are forced to sell but the setimental value that comes with a gift does make it much more valuable in the eyes of the owner. If it's prized to you, don't sell it.

how would banksy feel if he was reading this, i hope you wrote him a nice thankyou letter ;D

Yep agree, see absolutely no reason for a COA if it has full checkable provenance

Does it have a name on it?

ill trade you something for it you can sell.....

This was what I thought the case was too.

I bought a signed gifted Soup can print from the original buyer and he'd got a COA for it, and since buying it PC have now put it under my name.

And after framing it up it's one of my favourite pieces...



I know it had taken months to get it authenticated despite it being given to the guy i bought it from - i imagine that any prints like this are shown to Banksy to check if he auctually signed them. With a dedication like this it is quite easy for him to check, whereas i guess with just signed gift prints it's hard to verify.

If someone was a dedicated fraudster it would be possible to fake the print of get a back door print and then fake the signature, and then PC might end up autheticating a good fake.

I know this is very unlikely to happen (it would require someone who was given one fairly to then start faking signatures), and i would say on the soup can for sale on this thread it's suggest it's so unlikely that there were fakes of these.

It might be worth contacting the original seller and see if he would be able to get the authentication on your behalf.

Good luck with the sale as it's a great print.

i'm sure someone would pay a couple of grand for a signature, even with a COA it's not an editioned print so IMO will be worth far less than 1 of 10 or an A/P.