get the posters he must have hidden away and try to sell them maybe?
all I know is there are many posters he was traded that have not been seen in the market
so unless they were sold overseas or went into black hole collections where the people are not aware that item is illegally gotten gains, these posters have to be somewhere
Not challenging you Rich, I honestly want to understand the future implications for the hobby. Are you saying...
1. There are likely
legit posters traded to Haggard that have not been recovered as part of the seizures? Importance: Haggard was hiding assets and he might try to sell or rebuild his collection with them after getting out of jail?
2. There are likely
fakes still in the wild that are
known because of Mendez, but that were never recovered?
3. There are likely
fakes still in the wild that are
unknown, either because Mendez wasn't totally forthcoming or because Haggard possibly worked with additional "restorers"?
Either way with 2 or 3: The importance being that people who own these presumably are unaware they are fake. If and when they finally surface could Haggard be charged again for those 'new' crimes? What is the statue of limitations?
this of course also presumes that they are not in collections where the owner do indeed know, but I'd like to consider we don't have those kind of assholes in this hobby.
Are you saying people might knowingly own Haggard fakes and didn't come forward? Your "asshole" implication being that these people might think they can swindle someone else down the road with them?