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Thursday,May 21 2009, 06:05:11 PMRembrandt Millennium Impressions – Article 3
(Please read Millennium Impressions Article #1 and Article #2 before this one.)
Park West and the Millennium Impressions/Edition
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"You can fool all the people some of the time,
and some of the people all the time,
but you cannot fool all the people all the time."
(attributed to Abraham Lincoln)
Park West responded to articles #1 and #2 in this series by building a whole new website in which they confess, after all these years, when they had no way out of it, that they have owned the eight copper plates which had been used to print the Millennium Impressions and Park West's later version, the Millennium edition all along. The question is, why have they pretended otherwise about this for so long? Why are they now, for the first time, calling them the "Millennium Impressions" after spending so much time and effort to change the name to Millennium editions (another point made in the earlier articles)? There are other questions...
by David Phillips
Introduction
Very soon after we published Millennium Impressions Article #1 The Millennium Impressions - Recent Posthumous Etchings Made from Eight Rembrandt Copper Plates and Article # 2 Park West Gallery Buys Eight Rembrandt Copper Plates and Conceals their Ownership. Why the Secrecy? Park West Gallery put up an entire website devoted to the Rembrandt etchings which they sell. On this new website, for the first time, they admitted that they own the copper plates from which the etchings are pulled. Not much choice there - after all, we published documents which proved it. However, it produced quite a reaction amongst auctioneers who had been told for years that the plates were not owned by Park West Gallery who then passed this information on to auction attendees as part of their sales pitch.
Park West also quickly changed the name from Millennium edition, which is what they have been using since 2003, to Millennium Impressions, the trademark coined by Intaglio Etchings Ltd. when Intaglio Etchings Ltd. began marketing and selling the eight Rembrandt etchings in 1998.
While they may think that this neatly ties up all the loose ends and leaves Park West smelling like a rose, there are some very obvious questions which have been studiously ignored, and some less pleasant odors left hanging about in the air.
Lest anyone is coming in late on the scene and has missed some of the background, we thought it only fair to ask those questions here.
Tuesday,Apr 7 2009, 03:40:19 PMSalvador Dali Fakes #7
Park West Gallery and Bernard Ewell Salvador Dali Blue Unicorn Blues
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Bernard Ewell, Park West's Dali expert of choice, pronounces a Dali print ...
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Tuesday,Apr 7 2009, 03:36:30 PMPark West Contracted Auctioneers Speak Out
Article # 3
Ex-Park West Auctioneer Confirms Information Received About Practices Reported by Other Auctioneers to Fine Art Registry
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Tuesday,Mar 31 2009, 08:28:19 PMTax Time for the Artist:
Possible Tax Deductions for the Visual Artist
by Dr. John Daab CFE, for Fine Art Registry®
Tax Time for Artists: Possible Tax Deductions for the Visual Artist ...
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Tuesday,Mar 31 2009, 08:24:15 PMStrategic Litigation Against Public Participatio..
First Amendment Free Speech and Expression under Attack
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by Dr. John Daab, Certified Fraud Examiner, for Fine Art Registry® ...
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