{"id":316331,"date":"2025-11-24T19:56:50","date_gmt":"2025-11-24T19:56:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/peraltafinancing.com\/entertainment\/art\/cards-on-the-table-reagan-upshaw-fine-art\/"},"modified":"2025-11-24T19:56:50","modified_gmt":"2025-11-24T19:56:50","slug":"cards-on-the-table-reagan-upshaw-fine-art","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/fivemor.com\/?p=316331","title":{"rendered":"Cards on the Table &#8211; Reagan Upshaw Fine Art"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> <br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div>\n<p>As with all such collectables, condition is paramount, and fakes began to be made soon after the cards\u2019 release. There are three major authenticating firms that will examine Pok\u00e9mon cards for condition and authenticity and will then seal each card in a tamper-proof plastic container.<\/p>\n<p>The Covid pandemic, with people sitting at home with their money, led to a major rise in Pok\u00e9mon prices, but there has been a \u201ccorrection,\u201d as they say on Wall Street, and prices have generally dropped to pre-Covid levels. Perhaps that\u2019s only temporary \u2014 Travis Landry spoke of Pok\u00e9mon cards with a certainty usually reserved for Treasury notes. Maybe he\u2019s right \u2013 maybe Pok\u00e9mon cards will increase in value over the years and will need to be moved in armored cars on their way to black-tie auctions (or, rather, Sp5der hoodie auctions).<\/p>\n<p>The collecting of things with no inherent value always causes a scratching of heads by those not participating in the market. You\u2019d pay a hundred dollars for an old medicine bottle? Why, that\u2019s crazy! Of course, outsiders feel the same way about an Abstract Expressionist painting \u2013 you\u2019d pay a million dollars for something my three-year-old kid could do? It\u2019s all in the way you look at it. But the market for collectables, at least up in the rarified air where special pieces trade, is always a narrow one, and it can change rapidly in a relatively short time. If you\u2019re looking for security, I\u2019d suggest keeping your money in T-Bills.<\/p>\n<hr width=\"80%\" color=\"gray\"\/>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>One other take-away from last week\u2019s annual meeting: artificial intelligence promises to disrupt appraising, as with every other field. Art authentication has heretofore been the bailiwick of scholars. The three pillars upon which authentication rests have always been connoisseurship, provenance, and forensic analysis. Connoisseurship \u2013 a deep acquaintance with the work of a particular artist or school. Provenance \u2013 the ability to track a work of art from the artist down through the collections in which it has been held. Forensic analysis \u2013 scientific testing of the artistic materials (paint, panels, canvas, and the like) to detect materials which weren\u2019t being used when the painting was purportedly made.<\/p>\n<p>Should we now add artificial intelligence to the pillars? I don\u2019t doubt that scans of brushstrokes from paintings known to be by, say, Van Gogh could be used to train a computer to identify similarities in another work and pronounce it to be a Van Gogh. We\u2019re not yet to the point where an AI-issued certificate will be accepted by the major auction houses as proof of authenticity, but, given what we\u2019ve seen in only the past few years, I wouldn\u2019t rule out the possibility. Brave new world.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>As with all such collectables, condition is paramount, and fakes began to be made soon after the cards\u2019 release. There are three major authenticating firms that will examine Pok\u00e9mon cards for condition and authenticity and will then seal each card in a tamper-proof plastic container. 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