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Post subject: Spare page on Ebay
 Posted: Mar 19, 2008 - 08:07 PM
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Hello Spare buffs
I'm a bit intrigued by the Spare "print" (so-called) currently on Ebay - no. 370032313614
It looks to me like a page from the 1972 Automatic Drawings published by Catalpa, but I don't have a copy of that to check. Can anyone confirm?
It occurred to me that, if that's the case, I can take an illustration out of any 1970s Salvador Dali book and have myself a "vintage Dali print", or perhaps flog it on Ebay. Any comments?
Any of you chaps bidding on this item?
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Posted: Mar 19, 2008 - 08:23 PM
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I've just checked my copy, and yes it is from the Catelpa book.
A bit embarrassing, this, because only a few days ago someone asked me this in an email, and I answered with a confidence at once admirable, quasi-knowledgeable but now clearly reckless, that it wasn't from there . . .
Spare buff? More like Spare bluff, clearly.
Fortunately the young man took my pronouncement with the authority of the Delphic Oracle . . .
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Posted: Mar 19, 2008 - 10:17 PM
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Golly, I hope he's not the guy who's booted it up to £56...
Thank you for that Mr S, that was extremely helpful - I think I probably won't be bidding. But I now find myself with an embarassment of "vintage prints" by more artists than you could shake a stick at, including a couple by the great Leonardo, Mike Angelo, et alia et alia.
Looking forward to a very cosy retirement.
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Posted: Mar 20, 2008 - 09:48 AM
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oneiros wrote: › Golly, I hope he's not the guy who's booted it up to £56...
Thank you for that Mr S, that was extremely helpful - I think I probably won't be bidding. But I now find myself with an embarassment of "vintage prints" by more artists than you could shake a stick at, including a couple by the great Leonardo, Mike Angelo, et alia et alia.
Looking forward to a very cosy retirement.
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Posted: Mar 20, 2008 - 04:06 PM
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Yeah, people are constantly flogging book illustrations on E-Bay.
Caveat emptor and all that. |
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Posted: Mar 20, 2008 - 08:18 PM
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