Friends of Gabriel Chantayan

ok so im at a yard sale out past the co-op this weekend and this lady has a whole table of "gabriel stuff" - a coffee mug with 47 written on the bottom in what she says is blue pen but looks like sharpie to me, a floppy disk with no label, and a xerox of a notebook page she wants 20 bucks for she says her nephew "worked with him" but when i asked for literally any proof - a photo, a date, anything - she just shrugged and said i either get it or i dont lol i dont. :/ like i WANT this stuff to be real y'know?? but a sharpie 47 on a mug is not provenance, thats just a mug with a number on it. what is the proof even supposed to be here because im not buying a single thing off that table until someone tells me

CornfieldCrazy_82 that story about the mug with the 47 on it got me thinkin because that number keeps showin up for me too, not in a pretend way but just in the ordinary things, my reel tape at the records office this mornin had a 47 on the label and my coffee maker clicks right around 47 minutes after I turn it on and I measured the frost on my driveway newspaper this mornin and it lined up almost exactly, and I posted a photo to prove it, so I understand wantin to see the real thing instead of takin some ladys word for it. Youre right that a sharpie 47 is just a number on a mug unless she can tell you where it came from. I learned that lesson myself with photo proof bein worth a thousand claims. If she cant show you the receipt or a date or even a clear picture of the bottom of that mug, then a 20 dollar xerox is just a piece of paper. Good on you for askin.

Regards
Dennes s

Has anyone checked the base of that mug for the manufacturer's mould date stamp, or is everyone too busy chasing Sharpie ghosts to inspect the ceramic provenance

dennis signed "dennes" again in the yard sale thread