Remember when you could buy a signed Banksy for £150?

[munkeh]

Been going through my old email accounts and found a few emails from POW.

Got this one about CND Soldiers, which I later went on to buy, signed for £150.

Although I didn't buy it straight away, I think I bought it a few days later.

If I remember right, signed/unsigned used to be available for about 2 weeks.

Then Bradgalina came along and it became an F5 refresh game!

[Daniel Silk]

Print up the emails and you can auction them at Juliens 😂

[artearte]

Oct 16, 2024 15:04:28 GMT 1 Daniel Silk said:

Print up the emails and you can auction them at Juliens 😂

Ja,                 Ja,                   Ja 

[compound]

[Wanchope]

Old ones were the best ones !

[Fuzzyduck121]

The most shocking thing about that is the fact BME sold out and LIITA was still fully available

[Greyhound]

I remember wanting to buy a signed Because I'm Worthless for £250 from a local gallery, probably around that time. My girlfriend at the time talked me out of it. A couple (few?) years later I managed to get talked out of buying one for £999 by a new girlfriend.

It consoles me to think that I'd probably have sold it when it was worth a couple of grand, but to this day I'd like to have one on the wall.

[18921892]

Oct 16, 2024 16:11:03 GMT 1 Greyhound said:

I remember wanting to buy a signed Because I'm Worthless for £250 from a local gallery, probably around that time. My girlfriend at the time talked me out of it. A couple (few?) years later I managed to get talked out of buying one for £999 by a new girlfriend.

It consoles me to think that I'd probably have sold it when it was worth a couple of grand, but to this day I'd like to have one on the wall.

Note to self, don't discuss art purchases with partner.

[goose]

I miss POW releases - was a proper occasion

[munkeh]

All the Banksys I bought were then framed and put on my wall, I also owned SpaceInvader, PaulInsect and Nick Walker, all again enjoyed in my room and not in a tube.

Back before they went to silly prices, I'd buy them, enjoy them, sell them on and make a few hundred quid, to then buy another and enjoy that too.

The CND one, I actually sold it on eBay soon after the BradGelina incident, I think at the time I had the highest sold print of his in sold auctions at £2,100.

In all the prints I owned, I had signed CND, Grannies, Jack and Jill, Nola. Unsigned, most of the rats. If I had only kept them, but I got the most out of them at the time.

I actually sold Nola to my parents for £2,500. They had it for about 8 years and sold it at ForumAuctions for about 30k, so not bad really. I got a bit towards a new car too.

Now I'm just hunting down an einePink Train and it'll go with my Hewlett Sponge Finger and eine Blue Train that I've kept hold of as I like them.

[Onket]

If I had bought any of these at the time I'd have definitely sold them as soon as they became worth a few hundred. That's if they weren't damaged in the multiple house/flat moves, I never seemed to live anywhere longer than a year until we bought our first place in 2010. Besides, my money was spent on beer and other things, not an overpriced glorified posters (as I'm pretty sure I saw 'prints' at the time). I've got my XL Americans sticker that I got from the wall at the Burner Prize, and the memories- that'll do me.

[Johnny Sarcasm]

Oct 16, 2024 16:19:20 GMT 1 18921892 said:

Oct 16, 2024 16:11:03 GMT 1 Greyhound said:

I remember wanting to buy a signed Because I'm Worthless for £250 from a local gallery, probably around that time. My girlfriend at the time talked me out of it. A couple (few?) years later I managed to get talked out of buying one for £999 by a new girlfriend.

It consoles me to think that I'd probably have sold it when it was worth a couple of grand, but to this day I'd like to have one on the wall.

Note to self, don't discuss art purchases with partner.

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