Big Yamakichibei Oof

[sabi]

Someone really bought into the story on this piece, hopefully it wasn't one of our members!

 

https://page.auctions.yahoo.co.jp/jp/auction/v1043655253

 

*Closed at 280k Y for when the link eventually doesn't work.

 

 

[Curran]

There was a lot of spin on that one.

Proper to call it some wicked googly?

 

[sabi]

I was a little surprised to see it at 50k with a couple days left.  Noticed there were a ton of watchers and just had to keep the tab open.  These types of pieces usually fizzle out around there and I was absolutely stunned to refresh yesterday and see it go for well over two grand USD. 

 

It's not even a particularly good fake.  Gaudily overdone surface treatment that you don't see in real work, the mei is a swing and a miss and the Higo-esque worm grooves thrown in there just 'cause?

[Curran]

Well, yes, seen a lot of that on Yahoo!Japan

Total BS pump n dump situations. Rather a lot of them.

 

Yet once or twice in a while, something goes under radar.  To my own surprise, I picked up a rather excellent Rakuju last year.

Someone did far better than me, picking up a Hayashi Matashichi at about 1/8th what it would go for if the NBTHK papers it correctly. That is a big IF these days....

 

[Soshin]

The closing price of $280 sounds reasonable to me...   I really cannot see any detail in the photos (this is likely a good thing). LOL 

[FZ1]

The old trick when your "significant other" asks what you paid for it:

"It was only 280"  (and mumbled in a whisper "thousand")