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9 minutes ago, amaninjapan said:
oh is that meant to be Rocket Queen? I've heard it referred to as San Diego Mermaid and even simply as "Tattoo Girl"
Chicago mobster does nothing for me but Foxboro is nice, especially when you compare it to the original that it is a parody of. I think someone posted a pic of the original painting but I couldn't find it when I looked for it.
Kinda shockingly disappointing to think the guy who did the Foxboro obviously was the same guy that did the Auckland Kiwi, which looks simply awful.
The artist even refers to it as "Rocket Queen" and I agree with ZoSoRose as it is one of my favorite designs. I am not sure why someone would refer to it as the San Diego mermaid or why a mermaid might take up smoking.
Some really cool designs, but there have been some misses. I would love to see the original painting the Foxboro lithos were based off of if you could find the link.
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Interesting that they keep going back to a small pool of artists for these designs and some of them are still unknown. Example is the artist who did the Foxboro lithograph designs obviously did the Wellington and Singapore art as well. They are all signed with the same distinct "X" and the Wellington and Foxboro lithos have a similar banner design.
The only known artists so far are Arian Buhler, Sara Ray, and the Hatch Print litho for Nashville. The popularity of some of these designs has surely brought traffic to Buhler's and Sara's social media accounts and provides exposure for their other artwork. I am not sure why the artists wouldn't wish to promote their work.
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Plus it incorporates both venue dates and the artwork is too iconic not to have to pay through the nose to use the design. It would be cool as hell though!
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First two Japan lithos on eBay.
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So apparently there will be lithos for some of the Asian dates. Osaka Japan design by Arian Buhler.
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On 12/31/2016 at 0:16 AM, ChristmasFnatic said:
How much do they sell it at shows?
They were $50 at the US shows. There were none produced for their South American stops and it remains to be seen if they will produce any for the Asia and European leg of their tour. I imagine they will continue to produce them for each stop when they return to the US next year.
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A Coachella litho just appeared on eBay... First time I have seen an auction for this variant.
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The artist who did one of the Qualcomm lithos; Sara Ray still has a limited number of her signed Rocket Queen silkscreens available to purchase on her Etsy:
http://sararayart.bigcartel.com/product/guns-n-roses
High numbers are $85.00
Low numbers are $150.00 (numbers range between 2 and 16)
There are also a limited number of Artist Proofs available for $160.00
This was one of the best designs of the tour in my opinion, and a signed/numbered silkscreen would look awesome framed and hanging on your wall. Buying directly from the artist also shows support to the people who create these wonderful works of art.
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On 12/5/2016 at 4:03 PM, mikeman5150 said:
Yeah that's the one. It's looks like the seller you're talking about sold it. I don't see it in there anymore. He was wanting $175 for it anyway. I wouldn't have paid that much.
There was one listed on eBay by a different seller yesterday:
Demand has cooled somewhat as they have gotten into the hands of those that want and love them... Only one sale during the past week (A Detroit Litho). Older tour dates seem to be more popular, but not a lot of interest for the later tour dates... I think this is because the later shows were bought out almost immediately by a few individuals wanting to flip them and make a profit. Most of the people who attended those shows didn't even know they existed.
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On 11/12/2016 at 6:22 AM, xBrownstonex said:
This robert guy is selling them on ebay now. I dont wanna know how much money he made these last months by ripping off fans.
This Robert fellow had a foil, purple, and orange he bought from Sara Ray listed recently and I think he only made a profit on the foil one (sold for $382.77). The purple sold for $71.00 and orange for $66.00.
I know Sara sold the foil for $100.00, but does anyone know her original asking price for the purple and orange? Would rather see the artist benefit from the sale than some eBay flipper.
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4 hours ago, ZoSoRose said:
She just put them up
And already showing up on eBay.
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D.C. Lithos seldom appeared on eBay, but a lot have popped up recently. 10 in the last week.
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17 hours ago, Fitha_whiskey said:
Wow!!!! The one good part is, I don't think the litho scalping shit had started yet in KC, so at least the $ went to someone who actually went to the show to see GnR. At least I think, since no other KC's have ever hit eBay....
I have been paying attention to eBay and am surprised that demand for these have remained strong. I have also been looking for indications of fakes among the auctions and other than the Detroit lithos from a while back (not numbered) and Foxboro (reported inferior paper quality), the only other lithos that look sketchy are some Houston ones that have popped up recently selling for far cheaper than they could be asking (7 from the same seller over the last week for around $150 a pop). The seller uses the same picture for all his auctions, so it is impossible to tell if they are all copies of the same print.
Other than that, most of the auctions seem quite legit.
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On 9/5/2016 at 9:21 AM, uzi your illusion said:
Still looking for a Kansas City litho over here. I'd even pay top dollar for a high quality reproduction of that one is anyone here is good with that type of thing.
A KC litho was listed on eBay recently if you have really deep pockets:
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On September 16, 2016 at 0:12 PM, ZoSoRose said:
There was a Detroit fake up a few weeks ago...
Honestly, I'd drop 30-50 on a good Vegas 2 fake, but this is still shitty
I went back and checked for the Detroit fake. The action clearly stated that it was a fake, but he did sell one earlier on eBay Canada without disclosing that it was a copy. It also wasn't numbered:
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55 minutes ago, liqddynamite said:
Warning to anyone who bought a Foxboro litho on ebay, this seller "Topshelftunes" has sold several sets and singles that are fake. He doesn't say it in the description, but one of those drop-down boxes that no one notices above the description says "reproduction." The tell is the paper is noticeably thinner than the other lithos. Be careful not only buying from him, but anyone else on ebay as they might have bought one of these as well.
Here's a list of his sold items: http://www.ebay.com/sch/topshelftunes/m.html?_from=R40&_sacat=0&_nkw=guns%20roses%20foxboro&LH_Complete=1&LH_Sold=1&rt=nc&_trksid=p2046732.m1684
Edited to add: If you did buy one of these from this guy or someone else and they are not responsive in giving you your money back, eBay is very strict on counterfeit and they make it easy to get your money back in this situation.
I am assuming that you bought one from the seller to note that the paper quality was thinner. Did you contact the seller and he owned up to it/said he would give you your money back, or did he ignore you and you had to go through eBay?
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19 minutes ago, liqddynamite said:
Warning to anyone who bought a Foxboro litho on ebay, this seller "Topshelftunes" has sold several sets and singles that are fake. He doesn't say it in the description, but one of those drop-down boxes that no one notices above the description says "reproduction." The tell is the paper is noticeably thinner than the other lithos. Be careful not only buying from him, but anyone else on ebay as they might have bought one of these as well.
Here's a list of his sold items: http://www.ebay.com/sch/topshelftunes/m.html?_from=R40&_sacat=0&_nkw=guns%20roses%20foxboro&LH_Complete=1&LH_Sold=1&rt=nc&_trksid=p2046732.m1684
Thanks for putting this info out there. I can confirm the Foxboro lithos are on heavy stock as I purchased mine at the shows.
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3 hours ago, TigerBubba said:
Market is definitely cooling. A night one Vegas was a no sale at $175 and it went for $330 last week or so. My take on things...
San Fran, LA, and San Diego were all bought up by resellers. Fans got (by and large) the lithos at the other sites. This you don't see KC, Cinci, Nashville, Houston and DC coming up for resale very often.
i love that they did them. Hope the next tour they have lithos and instead of "Not in this lifetime", it's the tour supporting a new album!
I think you are 100% right about resellers buying up the later shows while the earlier shows were bought up by mostly fans... It is the later shows where more lithos are available on eBay and it really seems to be slowing down for them (New Orleans on). My take:
Lithos from the earlier shows were mostly bought by people who saw them at the merchants and thought they would make a cool souvenir. Fans are more apt to keep them instead of trying to flip them for a quick buck... there were also fans who saw them at the show, but didn't immediately buy for whatever reason (didn't want to take them into the Pit/Risk getting them damaged in some way) who looked to buy on the secondary market after they found that the merchants had sold out. This of course drove up the cost for the few lithos that appeared on eBay.
i bet most fans who went to the later shows didn't even knew there were limited lithos available. They were all quickly bought up by resellers in bulk in order to flip online. How can there be a huge demand for something when most of the potential buyers (fans) never saw them? Sure.., the first ones listed would sell to collectors, but things woul cool off once the initial demand died down.
Case in point; there was a DC litho that appeared on eBay tonight with a "buy it now" price of $200. It sold almost immediately and was probably bought by someone who had been looking for one for quite a while. Meanwhile, I am seeing Las Angeles and San Diego lithos with far fewer print runs going unsold at $175 after a week of crazy prices.
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The market seems to be cooling a little for these... at least on eBay with some of the ridiculous prices some were asking for.
Lots of Completed auctions with no bids in the $175+ range. Next week or so should show the true value (for those interested in such things), but it looks like $100-$200 each depending on how popular the design is.
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17 minutes ago, Tourettes2400 said:
Thanks guy, my wife says I am obsessed. She thinks I am crazy but I don't care. I think I like it more than my Atlanta lith because it is so personal.
I am actually doing one like this but with every lithograph on it.
You should print out about 400, individually number them, and sell them on eBay! Haha!
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On August 24, 2016 at 1:33 PM, TigerBubba said:
Okay. I'm going to whine a little bit. I'm all about capitalism, but as two different folks I know we're trying to get lithos at SD, this fired me up. On eBay, the seller of the Tattoo Lady litho included a picture of the box that #150-250 came in. If they bought all 100, that kinda sucks...
Ok. I still doubt he bought a full box of 100 lithographs, but that particular seller obviously purchased a bunch of them. So far he has listed 14 separate San Diego lithos on eBay (a mixture of both designs), and is crafty enough not to saturate the market by listing them all at the same time. I am sure there were plenty of people who wanted one who came away empty handed because of this guy.
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2 minutes ago, Tourettes2400 said:
I wasn't going to pay those crazy Ebay prices for the Nashville litho so I just made my own from a few pics I took in Nashville for $25.
I bought a Slash and Duff guitar pick too. Going to put them with my ticket and Nightrain pass in the frame. Hopefully it looks badass. Probably get a frame this weekend.
That is freakin' sweet Tourettes2400! That picture of Duff standing in front of the screen is rally badass!
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I guess it is possible that they might offer reprints of the lithos on their website, but the reprints probably wouldn't be numbered and they would have to have some other way of visually identifying them as reprints... Something along the lines of what they do for comic books for 2nd or 3rd printings. Otherwise it is useless to market and sell something as a "limited-edition-collectible-exclusive-to-each-individual-show" and go through the effort of selling them individually numbered... you would also risk pissing off your fan base who plunked down their hard-earned cash to buy these things at the shows. It would work once... but why would someone buy them at the show and risk damaging it when they could wait until later and order it online?
if the original Troubadour prints were numbered, but the ones they are selling on the GNR website aren't and they are clearly identifiable with different color foil, then they would probably do something similar with any other additional lithographs they decide to sell.
It would have to be something completely different than just offering copies that are not numbered since that would be too easy to fake (especially true for those prints that were hand-numbered), and they sort of eliminated that possibility by issuing the Foxboro prints without being individually numbered. They could offer reprints with different quality paper, change the size of the reprints, or have a distinctive border around them to identify them to would be buyers that it is a copy instead of a venue original. This would actually have the opposite effect on controlling costs guitarpatch... it would make the originals more desirable to collectors and fans. That is why I think they will not go this route.
Now offering a web exclusive consisting of all the lithograph art from the tour in one big collage would be cool and an easy way to milk some more money out of everyone.
Thanks guy, my wife says I am obsessed. She thinks I am crazy but I don't care. I think I like it more than my Atlanta lith because it is so personal.
Tour Lithographs and show specific artwork
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Thanks! No doubt that was the inspiration for the art.