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30th August 2012

Very recently such as this has been appearing at the end of his listings:

 


Now this is worrying.

As I keep on saying, my purpose here, in showing these fakes is to alert other collectors as some of these will inevitably appear on the market pretending to be genuine.

His attempt to inhibit this purpose is simply collusion with people  who sell fakes. As indeed he used to do!

See here: http://www.antiquitiesonline.co.uk/Fake-Egyptianantiquities_AWL7V.aspx

 

He has to date not yet fully refunded this person. And yet he feels perfectly happy to gloat about this by showing this image of himself with the fake piece holding a  bottle of champagne.

  

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As he consistently writes such as

The Phosphene Gallery are the exclusive UK representatives of retired British art forger John Andrews. Andrews' work has been featured in numerous Television Broadcasts and the International Press, and has been shown in major exhibitions at London's Victoria & Albert Museum and Bolton Museum alongside other notorious counterfeiters Shaun Greenhalgh, John Myatt, Robert Thwaites and Ashley Russell. His work as a Painter, Photographer and Forger is now highly collectable with examples being known to exchange hands for thousands of pounds. Each work of art we offer at auction is Fully Guaranteed to be from Andrews' studios and is sold with a Certificate of Authenticity signed by the artist.

 

I believe it is this point he is keen to stop being publicised actually.

This is actually, as far as I'm concerned not of much interest really.

I don't care a hoot if he makes some of these himself or, as I believe,  buys from other makers of fakes and replicas and changes them a little before offering them as his own work: though it would seem to me reasonable to expect him to state the facts on his so called certificates of authenticity.

I invite him to take me to court to try and stop me dong this.

I have taken legal advice and  am informed that my use of these images is covered under the limitation of copyright by fair use/fair dealing  under the clauses of  Instruction or examination  and Criticism or review.

i.  Instruction or examination

Copying parts of a literary, dramatic, musical or artistic work or a sound recording, film or broadcast for the purpose of instruction or examination is allowed under the following conditions:

      • The copying is done by the student or the person giving instruction.

I copied them myself.

      • The copying is not done via a reprographic process.

It was not

      • The source of the material is acknowledged.

I have made that clear.

      • The instruction is for a non-commercial purpose.

I have clearly saiod  why I am doing this.

 

ii.      Criticism or review

Quoting parts of a work for the purpose of criticism or review is permitted provided that:

      • The work has been made available to the public.

The images have been on eBay and google

      • The source of the material is acknowledged.

As above.

      • The material quoted must be accompanied by some actual discussion or assessment (to warrant the criticism or review classification).

As  you can clearly see.....

      • The amount of the material quoted is no more than is necessary for the purpose of the review.

Have used only what conveys the information.

 

 

As evidence that not all  buyers read the small print.....

 




 

He or she will receive this handsome replica with a certificate starting that it and the fake document was created by Mr Andrews.

He may well have created the paperwork,  but not the shabti replica.

Maybe the buyer had not seen these before.

He even managed to change the colour of one to yellow.

 

 



A large number have been sold.

 



Not sure I'm right about this?

 

Compare.

 

From the same mould.

 



And most convincingly......

(The colour of the one I have has been slightly altered by me in Photoshop as these are bought from the BM as blue)

 



And yet another buyer who probably didn't read the small print.

 



  • Although these "replicas" would not receive any reasonably experienced collector, the fact that the fake labels are much superior to the actual artefacts makes it likely that such as these will appear on the market at a later date pretending to be genuine.

  • Although there are little "jokes" in a few of these labels, the majority do not contain these. 

  • I have suggested to Mr Andrews that he ensures that there are obvious anachronisms or such "jokes" in all the fake documentation: that would make it less likely that they could be used fraudulently at a later date.

  • But he shows no interest at all in doing this. One assumes therefore that he has no interest in reducing the likelihood of his products being passed of as genuine. It is indeed all in all a rather hostile and aggressive stance he takes in regard to us collectors.

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