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I am curious as to why this spectral dragon would be signed by Melody. I’m not sure if this should be in the ask Melody forum or here, but here goes anyway’s. I was watching this when he first came up for auction last week. I missed the end sale but I see he is being resold this week all ready. The reason I am curious is that I have a Peacock Spectral and I can’t see any difference between mine and this one so I can’t figure out why it is signed by Melody. Unless it is a fake signature or was signed for some other special reason? Here is the link.
Maybe they visited the factory once and had it signed…? Or maybe they faked it. >>; I didn’t see any ‘special’ peacock spectrals on Ravnheart’s Database, but maybe it just doesn’t go back far enough. Signed things usually come with a COA, though, don’t they?
that is interesting….I wonder if perhaps it might be faked…though it could in fact be a genuine signature. :shrug: :shrug:
I’ll ask the seller. e.e I doubt they know. I bet they found it at a flea market or something. They don’t even know how to spell Melody’s name. >.>;
There are a couple of possibilities I can think of:
– Maybe it belonged to someone who visited/knew Melody and had her sign it (seems kinda unlikely- they didn’t spell her name right or include any other info), or
– Maybe it belonged to an employee from the factory that had Melody sign it (seems very unlikely as they’d know what they had! Unless they gave it to someone else), or
– Melody might have at one time signed one of these guys for whatever mysterious Melody reason, or,
– It could be faked.The best thing you could do is ask the seller where they got the dragon and how it came to be signed. You can try asking Melody, but she might not remember!
They have not been sold with a signature since I started working for Windstone.
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My art: featherdust.comJennifer wrote:There are a couple of possibilities I can think of:
– Maybe it belonged to someone who visited/knew Melody and had her sign it (seems kinda unlikely- they didn’t spell her name right or include any other info), or
– Maybe it belonged to an employee from the factory that had Melody sign it (seems very unlikely as they’d know what they had! Unless they gave it to someone else), or
– Melody might have at one time signed one of these guys for whatever mysterious Melody reason, or,
– It could be faked.The best thing you could do is ask the seller where they got the dragon and how it came to be signed. You can try asking Melody, but she might not remember!
They have not been sold with a signature since I started working for Windstone.
I know the original seller claimed to have got it at a flea market. The current seller is just trying to flip it for more money. I suppose it could be a legit signature as the possible reasons people have given here are all very plausible. I was just initially skeptical as I knew that Melody didn’t normally sign those sculpts.
I remember Melody writing once that she had in the past signed pieces upon request when she met collectors at conventions or whatnot. It seems very odd that someone who knew enough about a piece to go to the trouble to meet the artist at an event and bring it (or buy it then) to get it signed would sell it at a flea market, but ???? :shrug: . Maybe it was from an estate? Could it maybe be such a piece? The signature does look like it says Pena, not Pene.
At first. I thought you meant the etched stamp she put on the butt of the sculpt. You see a lot of eBay pieces calling that a signature.I took a long look at the signature in question. It looks suspicious to me. It’s kinda hard to see, but it almost looks like it’s mis-spelled, but the photo is so bad it’s hard to confirm that. As mentioned, it’s interesting that Melody’s last name is mis-spelled in the discription as well. Oh well – who knows. Its down to 200 or best offer. Even if the sig is a fake 200 dollars for a retired Peacock Spectral isn’t horribly outragious.
That’s strange. The signature doesn’t look quite like the ones I have on some of my pieces, but then again, it can change over time.
One thing I am doing in the database (which I sorely need to update) when we’ve seen autographed pieces that were a regular production piece and not one the pieces from the store is to make a notation in the selling place. I can think of two pieces for sure that have been sold with autographs in the past year or so. One was a mouse wizard and I’m blanking on the other right now. The autographs on those two pieces were confirmed by Melody as genuine.
It’s not impossible to get a piece signed, so I don’t care about that part. What I see is it doesn’t look like the signatures I have, and if you look at it, it looks like it’s spelled “Pene” on the felt. On mine, the As looks like As. The ink is also very black, unlike the photo we see. “Melody” also looks different.
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