[Healeys] Item on ebay

[Alan Seigrist]

Mike -

I only say that - about 10 years ago I'd go into the shopping areas in
Saigon, and the shops were chock full of counterfeit watches and lighters,
etc. - the only thing unusual about it were all the counterfeits were from
the 1960's and 1970's (i.e. not modern Chinese counterfeits), so I guess my
point is Counterfeiting has been around a long time and this may very well
be an old counterfeit.  When I was a kid living in Taiwan in the 60's and
70's, you could buy any book published in the USA in Taiwan - Taiwan at that
time was the world's biggest producer of counterfeit English language
books.  I still have a Taiwan Merriam Webster Dictionary around somewhere -
as you well know a Webster's Dictionary in the US at the time costed a
fortune, but was only about 1/5th the price in Taiwan!

Alan

'52 A90
'53 BN1
'64 BJ8


On Thu, Feb 5, 2009 at 7:38 AM, M Lempert <mlempert at bellsouth.net> wrote:

> Okay, maybe I need to recant my story, especially if Mark knows the gent
> and has seen the steering wheel.  But let me explain. There were two Lestons
> listed by the same seller with only three feedbacks. The other was listed as
> a buy-it-now at only $150. Both wheels required immediate payment which is
> something I hadn't encountered before. The payment had to be made before it
> even closed the auction - very unusual. Now that together with a seller with
> only three feedbacks merits caution. But there's more. After the $150 wheel
> sold, it appeard again on ebay; then was finally taken down some time later.
> Very strange indeed.
>
> Additionally, (and here I will incriminate myself as someone without a
> life) the Moss signature on the one wheel looked odd. I compared the
> signature with one that I have plus two more signatures from period
> advertisements. See, I'm a total steering wheel geek. The signature did not
> look good. I have just uploaded the signature comparisons so you can see
> what I'm talking about. The first two signatures are obviously from the
> adverts; the third (A) is from my steering wheel, and the fourth (B) is the
> ebay wheel. What do you think?
> http://www.pbase.com/mdlempert/image/108877575
>
> Mike L.