I understand in a large auction a few minor errors might creep in here and
there, but when I read the description of this X-9 daily I wonder if they are
trying at all.
https://comics.ha.com/itm/original-comic-art/alex-raymond-secret-agent-x-9-daily-comic-strip-original-art-dated-8-23-37-king-features-syndicate-1937-/a/7239-95277.s?ic4=GalleryView-ShortDescription-071515
Mike
On 01/05/2021 10:25 AM yellowkd@xxxxxxx <yellowkd@xxxxxxx> wrote:
Yeah at 33% fee mark up you expect a little better on the identification.
I wish I could be more sure on their recent IDS. I own a Tim Tyler's luck
Sunday traded to me years ago as a Raymond - My friend Tom Roberts did the
Raymond bio- and had access to his records - mine is the week after Raymond
quit! (a lot of it doesn't look much different than the one the week before!
But any artist starting on a strip is usually told to make it look like the
preceding artist. Heritage has or had one a few weeks later attributed to
Hogarth some one i had never heard having done work on the strip. One more
thing more to research but I am hoping that this time they are right!
Best George
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From: "Trevor Pearson" <tapearso@xxxxxxxxx>
To: comicartl@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
Sent: Tuesday, January 5, 2021 11:18:48 AM
Subject: [comicart-l] Re: Heritage errors in attribution
Not Goldberg — it’s by Bob White. Dan Parent helped with the ID.
https://www.comicartfans.com/GalleryPiece.asp?Piece=1431916
At the time I thought it didn’t look like DeCarlo but I liked it and
trusted HA.
The most common misattribution I see is Goldberg as DeCarlo, though.
I’ve got a few Goldberg pieces that I bought which were labeled as
decarlo. Most off of eBay where I expect that kind of thing and didn’t pay
heritage prices for them.
My expectation for heritage is to correctly identify art, though. With
the fees they charge and their standards it should be possible.
On Tue, Jan 5, 2021 at 10:10 AM yellowkd@xxxxxxx mailto:yellowkd@xxxxxxx ;
< yellowkd@xxxxxxx mailto:yellowkd@xxxxxxx ;> wrote:
> > Was your cover by Goldberg? There was one recently that
looked like the Goldberg covers that came out in the 1970's. A Goldberg I
sold years ago (ie I knew it came out of Goldberg's garageas I bought it from
the guy who bought skids of art from Goldberg) I saw recently listed as a
DeCarlo cover but I forget where - whether it was on a sale site or
onhttp://www.comcis.org
GeorgeSent from Gmail Mobile
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From: "Trevor Pearson" < tapearso@xxxxxxxxx
mailto:tapearso@xxxxxxxxx ;>
To: comicartl@xxxxxxxxxxxxx mailto:comicartl@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
Sent: Tuesday, January 5, 2021 11:02:25 AM
Subject: [comicart-l] Re: Heritage errors in attribution
I’ve noticed this too. I got burned by them on an Archie annual
cover that was initially listed as by DeCarlo and then changed after the
fact to say ‘attributed’. This was a few years ago.
I’ve since gotten a bit better at identifying art by DeCarlo rather
than trusting them and I 100% mistrust the attributed designation.
For me ‘Dan DeCarlo (attributed)’ is now a proxy for ‘unknown
Archie artist’.
On Tue, Jan 5, 2021 at 9:37 AM Bill Morrison <
bill.littlegreenman@xxxxxxxxx mailto:bill.littlegreenman@xxxxxxxxx ;> wrote:
> > > I’ve noticed a disturbing trend in auctions
of Archie art at Heritage. Several lots have listed "Dan DeCarlo
(Attributed)” as the artist when the art is clearly by another artist and
shows no sign of Dan even touching it. I’ve emailed Heritage about these
errors but to no avail. I’m wondering if they have someone in-house who
does the attributions of art, or are they just taking the word of the
person who’s putting the art up for auction? It seems like someone, whether
Heritage or the seller, is trying to drive up sale prices on art by lesser
artists.
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