[fuzzed]

Apologies if this has already been posted, not sure what to make of this - cgi.ebay.co.uk/Banksy-Street-Art-Original-Urban-Art-Piece_W0QQitemZ330234373604QQihZ014QQcategoryZ360QQssPageNameZWDVWQQrdZ1QQcmdZViewItem

Looks very similar to the one in the Locations and Tours book, but I walked past this about a month ago and the gas meter box was there and where the banksy should have been, it looked as if it had been sprayed over with black paint.

So to me this looks like a fake. Any thoughts?

[alcat82]

This is my image of it from last summer...



Certainly everything seems to be in the right place...I think it's genuine.

[icky]

Yes, unfortunately this is probably real. The seller also had an electric box from the south bank with a photographer rat on it, but it got pulled.

This guy is a bad person. Avoid.

[singerstu]

I remember seeing that Nick Walker sticker on it. Sadly 100% for real

[fuzzed]

I guess looking at your photo of it, it does look very similar. Shame this person is selling these street pieces.

[jam]

Its a shame he didn't blow himself up removing it.

[buswell]

Yeah - Think it used to have a parachuting rat on the door.. The door went some years ago.. Shame..

[Martin Whatson]

It still isnt worth more than its weight in scrap metal!!

[romanywg]

If you look back through his feedback there's a great comment from the guy who won the banksy rat on the South bank.
STREET ART SHOULD BE LEFT ON THE STREET - ITS NOT CALLED LOUNGE ART IS IT!

[Guest]

but he bought it anyway? what a fucking hypocrite.

[jonnyx]

May 17, 2008 1:47:20 GMT 1 @ronhill said:

but he bought it anyway? what a f**king hypocrite.

maybe the buyer returned it to the street from whence it came, like the champion angler returning a great fish to the stream to let it live on.

prob'ly not like. but you never know.

[Guest]

I just checked the image, it looks like a piece of crap.

[dslug]

So this is just something with a stenciled sig on it and people are bidding...wow

[graeme501]

what would u do with this when if u bought it ?

does it still work ?

[killerkellah]

thats fake, but a very good one at that.

wheres the sticker in the top left? wheres the smudge by the Banksy tag that he clearly has in his picture.

also, the positioning of the tag looks wrong.

[fuzzed]

I've got to admit some of it looks dodgy. On alcat82's photo on here there's a screw towards the very left, not on the ebay one though.

Good fake if it is, just intrigued as I'm sure I saw it on the street with the banksy tag painted over.

[mammal2]

Im afraid to tell you all but this is legit. I have many pics of this and they look spot on. You can even see the fine outline where someone has tried to remove it with a knife. Plus, it has been removed.

[deckstar]

He only sold the electric box for a buy it now 99p! and the other £410! CRAZINESS

[Hoops]

who gives a shit.

Theres no image here its just a bloody " BANKSY " sprayed on a lump of metal.

No artistic merit here at all.

What are you going to say ..OOhh this word was sprayed by Banksy

Any one even bidding on this needs to get a life

[fuzzed]

Chill out mate, I was interested to see if it was real or not as it's nothing like the one I saw.