Good copy but there are a few differences between the two. I think the original is on sale tonight, so maybe some sort of publicity stunt.

Yep - the auction is tonight at the Film Museum in Covent Garden.

Peter Kennard speaks sense for the majority on Sky News:

The bu11sh1t auction was supposed to be happening in London at 5pm today... anyone know the outcome?

Oh wow would be awesome if they were by Banksy. If I saw one on the street I would definitely grab one! Would be mad not to.

Yep - im afraid so Sean - details on the bottom of the page from the link below

www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-london-22741911

So it didn't sell? The guy on the video on the BBC comes across as a right dick.

That's from their (Sincura) twitter before people worry that I've gone to the dark side!

SO glad it didn't sell!!!! serves the money grabbing t0ssers right - and who on earth made that hideous frame?

.......i just phoned them J, its ok to post pics but you must sing Im Dreaming of a White Christmas while wearing your wifes undercrackers as you are doing so.

yeh right! whoever heard of an 'auction house' staging a sale to try and sell something for more, when 'someone' in America has already agreed to buy it for 800k? There's no buyer in the US and the scumbags at Bankrobber have yet again flogged a dead horse... when will they learn that street art belongs on the street.

Disputed Banksy Mural Sells for More Than $1.1 Million
By Scott Reyburn - Jun 2, 2013 7:00 PM ET
A mural by Banksy which divided the art world after being removed from a London street sold last night at a private event in London for more than 750,000 pounds ($1.1 million).
The 2012 spray painting “Slave Labour,” showing a boy making Union Jack bunting with a sewing machine, was being shown by the Sincura Group, a concierge company, at a members-only event in the basement of the London Film Museum in the Covent Garden area of the U.K. capital.
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A man takes a phone photo of an artwork attributed to Banksy. The stencilled image, depicting a poor child making Union Jack flags on a sewing machine, was located on the wall of a Poundland discount shop in the Wood Green area of north London. The artwork was later removed and has been offered for sale, first in Florida and now in London. Photographer: Peter Macdiarmid/Getty Images
The work’s sale, earlier planned for an auction in Florida, enraged street art enthusiasts who argue that Banksy murals are gifts to communities and should remain in situ. Others point out that unsolicited graffiti becomes the property of the building owners, who are legally entitled to do what they want with them.
Prospective buyers had been invited to make offers for the painting of more than 900,000 pounds in a 3½-hour silent auction that closed at 9:30 p.m. Invitees sipped Taittinger champagne and listened to house music as they admired the newly-framed mural flanked by a pair of security guards.
At the end of the event, Sincura had received three bids of more than 750,000 pounds, the London-based dealer Robin Barton, who was representing the restored mural’s owners, said in an email. The successful buyer and final price will be announced later this morning, he said.
Miami Sale
The Banksy had been stenciled on the wall of a Poundland store in London. It was removed in February and reappeared in the Feb. 23 sale by Fine Art Auctions in Miami, estimated at $500,000 to $700,000. The lot was withdrawn at the last moment, following objections from Haringey Council and street-art fans.
Barton, whose Bankrobber dealership specializes in Banksy, said in an e-mail on May 30 that a U.S.-based collector had already offered to buy the painting for $1 million and that he expected it sell for a higher price with Sincura.
“Our goal is to find a buyer who will keep it in the U.K.,” Tony Baxter, director of the Sincura Group, said in an interview before the sale. “We know the sale of this Banksy has caused great controversy. We’ve done our due diligence and there is no legal issue.” Baxter said he wouldn’t be charging any fees for the auction of the mural.
“Slave Labour,” satirizing Queen Elizabeth’s Diamond Jubilee, was being shown among a group of about 40 works by Banksy, Andy Warhol, Damien Hirst and Mario Testino. Most of the pieces were lower-value prints, though a signed 2001 Testino photograph of Kate Moss, from an edition of three, was priced at 125,000 pounds.
Pest Control
Bristol-born Banksy is the world’s most famous and expensive urban artist. A canvas by him sold for a record $1.9 million at auction in February 2008. In that same year, he introduced an authentication service, Pest Control, intended to regulate the market for his paintings and street murals.
He hasn’t authenticated “Slave Labour,” in common with other works sprayed without permission in public places. While Banksy is a widely imitated artist, experts said the work is clearly his.
“None of the major auction houses will touch a Banksy street piece without his certification,” said Mike Snelle, director of the London-based urban art dealers, Black Rat Press. “This event was supposedly about trying to find a U.K. buyer to keep it in the country. I didn’t sense much of a community feeling behind this.”
Owners Named
The painting first appeared in the Wood Green area of north London. It was on a building is owned by Wood Green Investments, a property company registered at Woodford Green, Essex, according to the U.K. registry, Companies House. Its co-directors are named as Robert Alan Davis and Leslie Steven Gilbert, both based in Essex.
Barton said in an email that Davis and Gilbert owned the Banksy mural and that he had arranged its sale in London.
“These paintings do not need certification,” said Barton. “If one takes the view that Banksy has made a significant contribution to 21st-century art history, then this is best represented through his visceral street works, often created in the dead of night with the threat of arrest ever present. The stencil and sprayed canvas works are a poor imitation of the real thing.”
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To contact the writer on the story: Scott Reyburn in London at sreyburn@hotmail.com.
To contact the editor responsible for this story: Manuela Hoelterhoff at mhoelterhoff@bloomberg.net.

Exactly Wizzy...
Hey Robin 'Dick' Barton from Bankrobber - where's the buyer? All the press reports today were told by Bankrobber that the purchaser would be announced later today? That's not going to happen because it's all a scam, there is NO buyer. All Barton is trying to do is set a precedent for selling street works BUT no-one with £750k to spare will buy any of his grubby merchandise unless they know there's a resale value in it... that's what makes it an 'investment'. They'd not be able to sell a Banksy street piece on in the future and turn a profit because 'mainstream' auction houses won't touch them with a bargepole - because the artist will never authenticate them. Wise up Barton, you're not cut out to be in the art business... go back to ringing cars - you wide boy scum (hope you're reading this you moron)

I'm sure there's a Heavy Weaponary stencil on the side of a building where I go on holiday sometimes.

It looks poorly executed, so I'm sure it's Banksy.