[meteorite-list] Stop Thief!, Stop

From: Walter Branch <branchw_at_meteoritecentral.com>
Date: Thu Apr 22 10:28:37 2004
Message-ID: <009801c39f98$61d80be0$dbc59f44_at_wbranch>

Hi Fred,

Are you serious? Man, there is no end to this guy. Have you contacted him
about this? Your prints are copyrighted, right? Have you contacted the
proper authorities?

-Walter
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www.branchmeteorites.com
Walter Branch, Ph.D.
Branch Meteorites
PO Box 60492
Savannah, GA 31420



----- Original Message -----
From: "Fred Olsen" <debfred_at_worldnet.att.net>
To: "meteorite-list" <Meteorite-list_at_meteoritecentral.com>
Sent: Thursday, October 30, 2003 11:55 PM
Subject: [meteorite-list] Stop Thief!, Stop


> Stop! Thief! Stop!
>
> Notorious, internationally, known meteorite thief strikes again. After
> capers in Egypt and Brazil Ron Farrell of the Universe Collection and
> Bethany Science has embarked on a new bit of chicanery. He is selling
> unauthorized color copies of the handmade, hand colored Ensisheim woodcut
> print produced by Fred Olsen of Denver Colorado.
>
> I spent hundreds of hours over two years researching the original print
on
> which this work is based.
> I visited Ensisheim, Alsace, France in August 1999 and began this project
> soon after. I searched for a good image of the original broadsheet to
start
> with. I then modified the image, restored missing areas, altered the size
> to fit the handmade paper, translated and hand wrote the caption. I then
> transferred the image (mirror image) to a slab of hard maple and carefully
> carved it out. I then found a printer with a centuries old press who is
> versed in hand printing. Together we used hundreds of pounds of pressure
to
> print each image, one by one, onto the French handmade paper. Then each
> print is painted by a professional artist who uses handmade (as were
> available in 1492) mineral pigment paints that I make from pure mineral
> crystals. The image of the Ensisheim meteorite is painted with pigments I
> make from ground meteorite.
>
>
> Ron "the Con" Farrell got my print from Louis Carion in Tucson in 2001,
and
> started
> selling his rip-off color copies of my print in 2002.
>
>
>
>
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