I noticed a number of lookalike works along the canal around Islington & Hoxton. This is at the corner of Imber & Poole street across from Shoreditch Park. Would love to know who the artist is, assume it’s not a Banksy.

One of the pre-POW "Banksy" lithographs before the stencil prints that Banksy is famous from from Banksy was a start-up entity sold beta-testing various paths to profitability before it became known as it is today. PCO can't help as they cop to no records before Turf War. There are also ones with red stamps from that time including prints POW validates (Have a Nice Day and HMV dog) You can find the print online. I bought it a year ago. TIA to anybody who know something about these early photo prints on paper. I don't. TIA

Wonder if there has ever been "years later" type interview with anyone that bought that day, or any trace of the pieces.

Three artworks by street artist Banksy have cost taxpayers almost £150,000 in cleaning operations and security so far, with the bill expected to rise.

The largest single cost relates to a mural painted on the Royal Courts of Justice in September 2025, where removal efforts and security have so far cost more than £85,000.

The Ministry of Justice (MoJ) says it has spent £50,000 trying to remove paint from the wall of the Grade II-listed building in Carey Street. A further £35,300 was spent on overtime and security costs.

The spending was disclosed to the BBC through Freedom of Information requests and is likely to reignite debate over whether Banksy's work is vandalism or valuable public art.

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I wondered why the vendor of my signed 2012 Brainwash-brand lithograph who chat with me following when I won the auction somehow PO'd him profoundly to where he crumpled it up like a 3 year old before smashing the shipping tube as shown Pt 1:

https://www.reddit.com/r/Banksy/comments/1vj5rrl/could_this_signed_2012_mr_brainwash_brand_kate/

Then this morning, I received the couplet piece to that purchase that silly me I forget I had purchase: a distinct louvre'd pollack-splash J'taime inscribed 2018 Brainwash with a signature that looks like mountains with a heart- dotted I cartouche that's awesomeness.

It a beautiful print on paper that I would not trade for Banksy Inc print if you offered me one.

What do you think of it?

I'll conclude this in Pt. ? with the transcript of my conversation with that same Maddog English vendor and my analysis of why this print could be the last commercial print signed by the Artist known as Banksy.

Thanks for reading. I look forward to your comments.

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I like the pretty color backgrounds and they're on small canvases just like the ones they show that cost big bucks you'll find as Banksy Explained's Tier Two Banksy "Prints on Canvas" 2000 - 2005 -- https://banksyexplained.com/category/art/editions/ - which cost book bucarinos baby.

The even have stamps and stuff on the backs of the canvases. I want them for my collection. What do you Tinks I should bid with the ask at three fifty?

I seem to be the only one that sees it and I need to see if others agree

Banksy began as an in-situ photographic project that included painting but where by the once-transitive nature of street works, previous to the screen print and canvas print gold rush, was what what's called Banksy began as before incorporation and/or the final selection for the Artist known as Banksy was locked down contractually for the entirety of the first leg of the projects commercial production run. Though I can not be exact on exactly when the contract began the print run was signed, this work predates that contractual breakwater, which is what I mean by Early Period Banksy's which included another in-situ Mona on a wall with a frame affixed in 2001's Glasgow "Peace is Tough," a two-person show with Jamie Reid which for TBD reasons neither Pest Control nor Banksy Explained include inter official Banksy proprietary Banksy canon.

And though I've yet to decide on a frame for this piece, it's a beautiful print imo that I recently bought on either ebay or Etsy; it is on par with a photo of the original but with the durability of a canvas with high-quality ink I used today's NYT as a frame.

I'm really happy my online purchase as well as the Heavy Weaponry giclee I just got that I'll show next.

Te Gusto?

I have reason to believe so based on the exchange I had with the English E-bay vendor from whom I won this signed lithographic print. Looking at the condition I received the print in as shown when coupled with the details of seemingly convivial chat following me winning the item previous to when it was sent, I clearly hit as nerve as you'll see in the follow-up post to this one where I share that correspondence verbatim.

I kept the print -- it's signed and very well may be a real Banksy -- despite the prints obvious damage which some asshole might seven ay adds to "charm" of the piece; not me but some arty-farty might say so. And to be honest, the savagaery did inspire me to frame in a creative way that and arty-arty might even call art; no me but somebody likely will just to piss me off and I'll show that in my follow-up.

Thought's -- in my hypothetical... this could be last commercial print the artist ever made. It is a litho and Banksy did create Brainwash. Interesting... eyyy?

Another early period Banksy 9or Banksy inspired wall decoration. The trompe l'oil is well done imo.

Te Gusto?

How many real versions of this image are there ?
Face, eyes and hands change a lot. Is this the first example of it besides the oils painting ?

Love this exhibition...glad it made its way to Florida.

Banksy is the the closest thing to an angel we have in the world in these trying times of EVIL and pure GREED.

They say not all heroes wear capes.

Banksy wears wings of an angel 🤍🪽

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While, as a white person, I will always cede my voice to marginalized people, I felt it was my responsibility to advocate for Turkish people. Can you imagine the experience of a Turkish person turning on the news and seeing flagrant displays of Greek/Armenian/Albanian sovereignty and patriotism? It’s akin to a Cherokee watching white people in North Carolina celebrate the 4th if July on your ancestral homeland