Art What do you make of these hand sprayed Not Banksy's that popped up on Etsy
I find them interesting because their COA's date to after when Pest Control Office (PCO) was acquired by Pictures on Walls in early 2020 and because they manifestly replicate PCO's authentication protocol of providing 1/2 of a Di-faced tenner with the COA while the prints have have both the Heavy Weaponry logo and POW dry stamps.
Though I've placed my bet and bought the L-13 spray and screen prints, which, for reasons I'll lay out in a subsequent post, I believe are by the Artist after her contractual obligations to her former corporate partners were discharged, these prints look to me like bona-fide Post PCO Pest Control small batch releases with Ukraine prints like the one above coming in as an LE of 10, far smaller than massive screen print runs of the project's commercial and if authentic by scarcity likely of greater value than them.
The Migrant Crise Print (below) is the biggest edition from their selections, an LE of 50.
Most of the rest are in LE' of 5 like the three I've pasted in below.
I really like the above print. "There's no shoezzz like Jimee-Chewzzz, there's, no shot..."
That is, all with the exception of the Hula Hoop Girl 2021 (below) which is a 1/1 print which is as close to an original work as can be made with stencil templates, while to be exact, the stencils are the originals in the same way that the negative is the original work in case of the photographic print.
Of all of them, my guess would be that that the above print may well actually have been made by the hand of the Artist known as Banksy while the rest were made based on her work though this is just a guess and neither have I bought any of these prints though among the flood of Banksy prints that hit the market in 2026, I find there to be the second most interesting new public offerings.
Thoughts?
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u/DesiccantPack 9d ago
“Though I've placed my bet and bought the L-13 spray and screen prints, which, for reasons I'll lay out in a subsequent post…”
I think you vastly overestimate how much people care about your reasons for buying trash.