[meteorite-list] Stop Thief!, Stop

From: M come Meteorite Meteorites <mcomemeteorite2000_at_meteoritecentral.com>
Date: Thu Apr 22 10:28:37 2004
Message-ID: <20031031104737.40876.qmail_at_web10304.mail.yahoo.com>

Ron Farrell is well know for this methods, it has made
the same thing putting for sale a piece of DaG 489
when instead not there were pieces in circulation

Matteo


--- Walter Branch <branchw_at_bellsouth.net> wrote:
> Hi Fred,
>
> Are you serious? Man, there is no end to this guy.
> Have you contacted him
> about this? Your prints are copyrighted, right?
> Have you contacted the
> proper authorities?
>
> -Walter
> ------------------------------------------
> www.branchmeteorites.com
> Walter Branch, Ph.D.
> Branch Meteorites
> PO Box 60492
> Savannah, GA 31420
>
>
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Fred Olsen" <debfred_at_worldnet.att.net>
> To: "meteorite-list"
> <Meteorite-list_at_meteoritecentral.com>
> Sent: Thursday, October 30, 2003 11:55 PM
> Subject: [meteorite-list] Stop Thief!, Stop
>
>
> > Stop! Thief! Stop!
> >
> > Notorious, internationally, known meteorite thief
> strikes again. After
> > capers in Egypt and Brazil Ron Farrell of the
> Universe Collection and
> > Bethany Science has embarked on a new bit of
> chicanery. He is selling
> > unauthorized color copies of the handmade, hand
> colored Ensisheim woodcut
> > print produced by Fred Olsen of Denver Colorado.
> >
> > I spent hundreds of hours over two years
> researching the original print
> on
> > which this work is based.
> > I visited Ensisheim, Alsace, France in August 1999
> and began this project
> > soon after. I searched for a good image of the
> original broadsheet to
> start
> > with. I then modified the image, restored missing
> areas, altered the size
> > to fit the handmade paper, translated and hand
> wrote the caption. I then
> > transferred the image (mirror image) to a slab of
> hard maple and carefully
> > carved it out. I then found a printer with a
> centuries old press who is
> > versed in hand printing. Together we used hundreds
> of pounds of pressure
> to
> > print each image, one by one, onto the French
> handmade paper. Then each
> > print is painted by a professional artist who uses
> handmade (as were
> > available in 1492) mineral pigment paints that I
> make from pure mineral
> > crystals. The image of the Ensisheim meteorite is
> painted with pigments I
> > make from ground meteorite.
> >
> >
> > Ron "the Con" Farrell got my print from Louis
> Carion in Tucson in 2001,
> and
> > started
> > selling his rip-off color copies of my print in
> 2002.
> >
> >
> >
> >
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