Topic: Paul Ysart Fake?

[casalibre]

I have found on ebay:
http://cgi.ebay.de/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&item=130865597356&clk_rvr_id=459668939131
Is it a fake?

[mildawg]

I'd say no, not fake.

[Antonia]

I wondered the same thing. The closeup picture of the signature cane is very blurry, but the P and the Y look to be different colors. My vote is for fake.

[chopin-liszt]

The pic is horribly blurry - which is suuspicious in itself - but I do theink the P and the Y are the same colour.

Can nobody tell from the quality of the work in it? 

[Nick77]

It looks right to me, also I have communicated through eBay with this seller over some of my sales, he is a prolific collector and he tells me at the last count had in excess of 300 Paul Ysart weights alone.

Nick

[tropdevin]

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I thought it was genuine.  I am not sure you can tell that much from the quality of the work, unless it is really poor - which some fakes are.

Alan

[SophieB]

Hi everybody,

100% genuine Paul Ysart and very lovely.

I think that it is a rare PY dragonfly: I had never seen one with a latticino body before. Maybe KevinH can tell us more about this.

SophieB

[KevinH]

I think that it is a rare PY dragonfly: I had never seen one with a latticino body before.

It could be the first one I have seen, too.

Regarding the py cane, this one is certainly genuine, but they can often be rather distorted and difficult to photograph well. In some cases, the py cane is squashed between other canes (especially in closepack and star pattern weights) and can be almost invisible until examined with a magnifying glass!

[SophieB]

Many thanks, Kevin.

Sophie

[chopin-liszt]

Is the trick of putting the weight in a bowl of room temperature water valid for trying to photograph a cane distorted in this way?

(the water has a refractive index closer to that of glass than air does)