[alibear]

Hiya,

I was lucky enough to pick up some Peckham Rocks, but like many people I bought a few and only received one receipt for the multiple rocks order.

Can I ask, how would you approach selling rocks individually with only one receipt.

As a buyer, a photocopied receipt isn't exactly a great verification, but maybe that's okay?

Any recommendations or thoughts on how to approach this.

PS - I am not looking to sell at the moment as I think the price will likely rise a fair bit more.....balsa wood or not

[LJCal]

I think a scanned copy is the only option and better than nothing.

[viz]

...and the price tag as well, there was one stickered on each postcard

[happy go lucky chap]

If you bought them online, I would also forward the invoice email. I just checked mine and see that I was charged £3.99 each and as I bought 10, was charged £15 postage, so £54.90 for 10. At the time I do recall thinking that the postage was a tad excessive - hey ho.

[whatilike]

For the money, faking these would seem an awful lot of effort. As a buyer, I would be satisfied with a picture of the receipt and some close-up photos to show the detail, so I could compare it to others. But I don't think I'd expect to see forgeries of this anyway.

[LJCal]

Aug 24, 2020 15:00:35 GMT 1 whatilike said:

For the money, faking these would seem an awful lot of effort. As a buyer, I would be satisfied with a picture of the receipt and some close-up photos to show the detail, so I could compare it to others. But I don't think I'd expect to see forgeries of this anyway.

I think you will start to see forgeries of these pretty soon, when they are worth £50 it isn't worth the effort but they are reaching £500 consistently at auction now so inevitably people will start to replicate them. 

[classicsofdesign]

Aug 24, 2020 14:55:45 GMT 1 viz said:

...and the price tag as well, there was one stickered on each postcard

I took the price tags off, didn’t fancy a slightly different coloured patch where the price tag had been.

[whatilike]

Aug 24, 2020 15:16:15 GMT 1 LJCal said:

Aug 24, 2020 15:00:35 GMT 1 whatilike said:

For the money, faking these would seem an awful lot of effort. As a buyer, I would be satisfied with a picture of the receipt and some close-up photos to show the detail, so I could compare it to others. But I don't think I'd expect to see forgeries of this anyway.

I think you will start to see forgeries of these pretty soon, when they are worth £50 it isn't worth the effort but they are reaching £500 consistently at auction now so inevitably people will not start to replicate them. 

They're £500 now?? Madness. 

[majestic]

Aug 24, 2020 15:39:53 GMT 1 whatilike said:

Aug 24, 2020 15:16:15 GMT 1 LJCal said:

I think you will start to see forgeries of these pretty soon, when they are worth £50 it isn't worth the effort but they are reaching £500 consistently at auction now so inevitably people will not start to replicate them. 

They're £500 now?? Madness. 

Oh wow.

I've got a couple for £500 each. Hit me up!

[cmc]

Word of warning to anyone who owns a few of these and has them stacked on top of each other in their forget about it drawer - the colours bleed onto each other or at least they have on a couple of mine. The wood seems more porous or less dense on some.

[LJCal]

You'll have to find an auction house that will take them but yeah a few results at that level. Privately I think they are £150-200.

[Dive Jedi ⭐]

Aug 24, 2020 15:56:26 GMT 1 cmc said:

Word of warning to anyone who owns a few of these and has them stacked on top of each other in their forget about it drawer - the colours bleed onto each other or at least they have on a couple of mine. The wood seems more porous or less dense on some.

Yeah, I had a few that had that issue.

But I sent them to Bignell and they fixed that perfectly.
Good as new !!

[cmc]

Aug 24, 2020 16:06:42 GMT 1 Dive Jedi ⭐ said:

Aug 24, 2020 15:56:26 GMT 1 cmc said:

Word of warning to anyone who owns a few of these and has them stacked on top of each other in their forget about it drawer - the colours bleed onto each other or at least they have on a couple of mine. The wood seems more porous or less dense on some.

Yeah, I had a few that had that issue.

But I sent them to Bignell and they fixed that perfectly.
Good as new !!

[whatilike]

Aug 24, 2020 15:56:26 GMT 1 cmc said:

Word of warning to anyone who owns a few of these and has them stacked on top of each other in their forget about it drawer - the colours bleed onto each other or at least they have on a couple of mine. The wood seems more porous or less dense on some.

I'll give you £4 each for them. Come on, that's a profit for you on damaged goods. 

[lazarus II]

Aug 24, 2020 16:06:42 GMT 1 Dive Jedi ⭐ said:

Aug 24, 2020 15:56:26 GMT 1 cmc said:

Word of warning to anyone who owns a few of these and has them stacked on top of each other in their forget about it drawer - the colours bleed onto each other or at least they have on a couple of mine. The wood seems more porous or less dense on some.

Yeah, I had a few that had that issue.

But I sent them to Bignell and they fixed that perfectly.
Good as new !!

my brown ale bottles left a permanent mark, i like to think it was a prototype of the new Banksy COA.

[alibear]

thanks all

I bought them at the British Museum shop.

Still got stickers on them so I'd better check them.

[earthlinga2]

Aug 24, 2020 15:16:15 GMT 1 LJCal said:

Aug 24, 2020 15:00:35 GMT 1 whatilike said:

For the money, faking these would seem an awful lot of effort. As a buyer, I would be satisfied with a picture of the receipt and some close-up photos to show the detail, so I could compare it to others. But I don't think I'd expect to see forgeries of this anyway.

I think you will start to see forgeries of these pretty soon, when they are worth £50 it isn't worth the effort but they are reaching £500 consistently at auction now so inevitably people will start to replicate them. 

But these would be a nightmare to replicate.  Far harder than replicating a Banksy print.  If people are in to that sort of thing, surely they would concentrate their efforts on replicating a print instead. More profitable and, I presume, much easier. 

[LJCal]

Aug 24, 2020 17:24:46 GMT 1 earthlinga2 said:

Aug 24, 2020 15:16:15 GMT 1 LJCal said:

I think you will start to see forgeries of these pretty soon, when they are worth £50 it isn't worth the effort but they are reaching £500 consistently at auction now so inevitably people will start to replicate them. 

But these would be a nightmare to replicate.  Far harder than replicating a Banksy print.  If people are in to that sort of thing, surely they would concentrate their efforts on replicating a print instead. More profitable and, I presume, much easier. 

I don't think they would be hard to counterfeit and let's face it people will fake ANYTHING, the exact reason that people consider them difficult to fake will draw people to fake them as people are less likely to be on guard. I think any decent craftsman and printer with enough time and effort could fake these well enough to pass off to inexperienced buyers. I think in the coming months and years we will see a whole load of fakes coming to the market. 

[Bren]

Aug 24, 2020 17:31:41 GMT 1 LJCal said:

Aug 24, 2020 17:24:46 GMT 1 earthlinga2 said:

But these would be a nightmare to replicate.  Far harder than replicating a Banksy print.  If people are in to that sort of thing, surely they would concentrate their efforts on replicating a print instead. More profitable and, I presume, much easier. 

I don't think they would be hard to counterfeit and let's face it people will fake ANYTHING, the exact reason that people consider them difficult to fake will draw people to fake them as people are less likely to be on guard. I think any decent craftsman and printer with enough time and effort could fake these well enough to pass off to inexperienced buyers. I think in the coming months and years we will see a whole load of fakes coming to the market. 

Fuck that

I am going to write todays date on mine then

[sfnyc]

Since you are the original buyer, the best practice imo for things purchased in a single invoice is to make signed/numbered photocopies of the invoice for each piece that you sell with your details and the details of the buyer on it (making some kind of provenance tracability for each piece). Each next owner should add their names on that numbered document with their details, date of purchase etc...

[earthlinga2]

I bought a couple from the British Museum for £3.99 each. I never even thought about keeping the till receipt, to be honest. I'm not considering selling them just yet but will people really expect a receipt for a postcard?

[alibear]

THANK YOU - that makes perfect sense - much appreciated - as a buyer that would make sense as well