[Healeys] ebay Steering Wheel Warning

[M Lempert]

Thanks to all for your comments, especially Mark Goodman for sharing his 
knowledge of the ebay seller.  I discovered last night why I was having a 
case of dij` vu; I had done a signature comparison on a similar, but not the 
same, wheel two years ago. That wheel had the very same signature as the 
wheel in question today. This can be looked at two ways and I'm not sure 
which would be correct. Either there was a second signature used, or it's a 
counterfeit that was done more than once, probably many times more than 
once - getting to Alan's point of period counterfeiting.

The best I can tell, the original signature looks to have been pressed, not 
engraved, although I could be wrong. The questionable signature was also 
likely to have been pressed, but definitely not personally hand engraved by 
Moss. The LL stamping was just that, stamped.

All of this aside, and because of Mark's voucher, I withdraw my caution of 
the seller and apologize to the gentleman. Those who are familiar with ebay 
and the scams that go on will understand why the auction was suspicious. 
Since this one was marketing to Healey people, I chose to warn my friends.

Regards,
Mike L.

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Robert Blair" <rnbmail at yahoo.com>


I am not a wheel expert, but this is not the normal Stirling Moss 
signature - I know Moss and have several original sigs in my posession.

Robert N. Blair  Yellow 65BJ8  rnbmail at yahoo.com