Banksy • Weston Super Mare Print

[CR]

hi,

I have recently had my weston super mare print re framed and i was just wandering how much you guys reckon it wold sell for.

I is unsigned and numbered. I don't want to sell it and have no intention of selling it in the near future as love to see it everytime i walk up the stairs but was just wandering how much its worth now?!

thanks

[CR]

£100, it is a proper mounted frame

[Ågent ßacardi]

In my expert opinion, it's probably worth £79.99. But if you agree to sell it to me, I'll give you £100.00 for it. Take it or leave it.

;D

[CR]

nice try but somehow i dont think so, im not stupid!!!!

[Ågent ßacardi]

I'm just kidding around

[CR]

seriously though, I saw an unsigned one on ebay go for £1750 at the beginning of the month?! Is that reasonable to expect?

does anyone know how much i would be worth at the moment?

[Ågent ßacardi]

It's a little bit hard to pinpoint exactly, since you don't see too many of them go on eBay these days. But there was one that went for £1250 on Oct 21, so it's probably around there. With the frame job, £1300 - £1350 would be a pretty good guesstimate.

(Kal976 can probably give you a much better answer than I can)

[KaL976]

Grey or Green?

[CR]

grey

[KaL976]

That's a good start

So where'd you get it, still got the receipt, etc etc...

[CR]

i got it from p.o.w xmas 2003, no receipt!! but once theyve finished selling all the new banksy stuff and are less busy ill see if they have a record of my purchase.

obviously no p.o.w stamp on it.

[CR]

oh and why is grey a good start, i thought the green one was rarer?

[foundation]

Nite the green one was never officially released, as banksy really didnt like it, the grey was the official release, back door print jobbies, nice to have and hang, but not worth anything more than the price of an unlimited edition as noone knows how many are out there, your grey one should be worth in the region of 1500 to 2grand, but having it hanging in the hallway looks better than a number in a bank statement, glad to hear you are looking after it.

[CR]

i absoloutly agree, i never bought it to sell, back in 2003 i really didnt think it would get as crazy as it would but its nice to know that i have made a good investment and if anything ever did happen and i needed cash it would be worth a few bob! hopefully i wont need to sell it though.

i guess like everyone i wish i had bought some more back when i could get hold of them easily! oh well

thanks

[jrmur]

anyone know which way up the the numbering on a weston-super-mare print should be mines at the bottom right but reads top to bottom rather than right to left, is this mormal or do i need to cosh the little rat i purchased it off with a pow print tube full of lead.......peace to all

[monochrome]

mines written the right way round so to speak - have u got a pic?

[jrmur]

:)cheers for the reply, i will charge me camera and send you a pic. if you rotated the numbering a quarter turn anti clockwise then thats what it looks like on my print....... confused ?

[andyhough]

Hi guys

I bought my girlfriend a signed Weston Super Mare many years ago from POW, unfortunatley she has lost her job and has had to sell it on Ebay to generate some cash (she's gutted by the way), the buyer has raised doubts about it's authenticity beacuse it is signed by Banksy in pen and NOT pencil. Can anyone shed any light on as to why it's in pen and not pencil. It's 100% authentic with POW provenance, we just need to convince the seller it is so. Thanks, Andy H

[dmandpenfold]

sorry mate it's not original, i'll give you twenty quid for it though as i like the image...





;D

sorry couldnt resist it, actually i havent got a clue on WSM signatures, hopefully someone can help you

[frank11]

Hi mate, my WSM is also signed in pen...................

[redfred]

If you check back on e bay of items previousely sold you will see its common for them to be signed in pen,sounds like your buyer might be trying to pull out!

[Suit]

I saw a thread before that listed how different banksys were signed but have not been able to find it again.

[bill]

A lot of these were signed in pen

[tobywaterhouse]

Mine is signed in pen too

Tell your buyer to nick-off

[marzipan]

Hello there,

I have a print of Banksy's Weston Super-Mare. It has 436/750 in pencil on the bottom right. Now, whilst I know it probably isn't worth that much as I bought it from eBay about five or six years ago for just over a hundred pounds, I was just wondering if anyone knew how I could get it authenticated/or find it's providence for insurance purposes. I can't get this information from the seller as they ceased trading on eBay last year.

Regards

Mari.

[foundation]

marzipan said:

Hello there,

I have a print of Banksy's Weston Super-Mare. It has 436/750 in pencil on the bottom right. Now, whilst I know it probably isn't worth that much as I bought it from eBay about five or six years ago for just over a hundred pounds, I was just wondering if anyone knew how I could get it authenticated/or find it's providence for insurance purposes. I can't get this information from the seller as they ceased trading on eBay last year.

Regards

Mari.

If you still have their name and contact details ( from the e-bay transaction), and they were the original purchaser from POW, you should be able to get POW to verify that they were the original owners, and you have your e-bay transaction... hey presto, a full papertrail for the print. If you no longer have their details, then you may be able to get their name from old bank statments / CC statments from your bank ( assuming you know which month etc you bought the print). If you dont have any real details for POW to confirm, not sure what you can do....

[mammal2]

POW will authenticate it. Send them a pic of the number and print! They will do this for free.

[Octopus UK]

mammal2 said:

POW will authenticate it. Send them a pic of the number and print! They will do this for free.

Eventually.

I put a simple provenance request to POW in mid January ("Did Joe bloggs buy number 123 of the Dodgy print"), still not heared anything back.

[hungrig]

mammal2 said:

POW will authenticate it. Send them a pic of the number and print! They will do this for free.

Where does this information come from? As far as I am aware, POW does not authenticate on the basis of photographs of prints. It is just not possible to do so.

There is a big difference between (i) authenticating a print (i.e. confirming it to be genuine) and (ii) confirming the name in which the print is registered.

[mammal2]

All you have to do is send them an email with the number and who its is registered to. They may request pics of the number also and if the name and address match their database they will confirm. easy! Have done this with purchases in the past!