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Title: PY forgeries - Lot 410 at Hansons auctions - 29 August 2020
Post by: SophieB on August 23, 2020, 09:46:31 PM

Hi there,

Just a quick warning that Hansons auctions has listed two PY forgeries in their auction of this coming Saturday (lot 410). I have emailed them already. I am fairly sure they suspect this as the listing specifies 'attributed to Paul Ysart'.

Anyway, I wanted to post this info here just in case...

SophieB

Title: Re: PY forgeries - Lot 410 at Hansons auctions - 29 August 2020
Post by: glassobsessed on August 24, 2020, 10:59:39 AM

The photo in their catalogue may not even show all the items in the lot - looks like there is a fifth weight just creeping into shot at the bottom of the image. Given viewing is online only that is very poor.

https://hansonslive.hansonsauctioneers.co.uk/m/lot-details/index/catalog/87/lot/38937?url=%2Fm%2Fview-auctions%2Fcatalog%2Fid%2F87%3Fpage%3D9

John

Title: Re: PY forgeries - Lot 410 at Hansons auctions - 29 August 2020
Post by: Nick77 on August 24, 2020, 12:34:18 PM

Hi
Yes I saw that too, also emailed them with a link to the Ysartglasscom page showing the fakes and suggested they either list them as fakes or withdraw them, nothing changed so far I see.

Nick

Title: Re: PY forgeries - Lot 410 at Hansons auctions - 29 August 2020
Post by: SophieB on August 24, 2020, 01:17:45 PM

Hi,

I had also added a link to Kevin H's article: 'Identifying Paul Ysart paperweights' to back up the ID in my message to Hansons. And yes, no change to the listing so far...

SophieB

Title: Re: PY forgeries - Lot 410 at Hansons auctions - 29 August 2020
Post by: Nick77 on August 29, 2020, 06:37:46 PM

Well they did finally change the listing to "in the style of Paul Ysart"