Thanks for your detailed insight hilariousetc.. i'll answer what I know.
teeGUMES, do they all come with the 'certificates'? Are they numbered at all?
The buyer will receive a CoA (certificate of authenticity) from me usually within 1-2 weeks of receiving the artwork. As many of you who have bought my art already know, i use Bitcoin technology and Vanity addresses on my CoA's and it can take up to 2 weeks to generate the desired result.
Each of the 10 coins i make for the 2015 year will have a different design, and if you would like to request something special for your own coin design or a special denomination you may feel free to contact me and i can make sure that 1 of the 9 remaining is designed with you in mind.
Please feel free to ask any questions below, and if your board and just browsing the web, take a minute to check out my other Bitcoin artworks.
Though he claims each coin came with a CoA I only ever had it mentioned to me by one of the owners. I received pictures but once the package came the card was not included with the coin / CoA.
Edited: Going through a box of my paper collectibles I did find this CoA.
One of the last items I received was one of the three bitcoin
BTC's that WoodCollector had made "
Culture Cultivation" and I received a CoA with it.
The quality of the printing job match fairly well so I can assume the first picture was indeed the CoA for the coin. These were done with a home printer and signed off "Bruce Wayne". Although more of these would be nice to have for provenance sake even some of my biggest critics admit:
Not like he had to leave his house and scour the countryside, there was a digital trail to each buyer and Bitcoin wasn't always expensive.
I also can confirm that these coins weren't just premade and ready to ship.
Coin 5 had the Hand of Fatima placed on it as a direct request from the original buyer. The coins themselves are not physically numbered, only in the way they are listed in WoodCollector's quote in OP.
He probably took it down himself. It proved more that he didn't or couldn't make these pieced by hand by what he showed (or didn't). I remember watching that video and really wishing someone made a copy of it. It gave away a lot of information about where he lived or at least where he worked on his woodcarving because if I remember correctly it showed him coming out of his house and walking to his garage or something like that and I think you could see the street and possibly the front of his house/drive. I tracked down one of his previous addresses back in the day. Can't remember exactly how I did it but he'd posted pictures of some of his works with a lot of the interior and they were matched to a online house listing. Think his name is out there as well and last time someone contacted me about him there was some evidence that he might have died in a car accident or something but I guess that's assuming we had the right name/person.
Regarding the YouTube video I did watch it back then without realizing the importance it would mean to me now. I do remember thinking that it didn't prove or disprove anything and I just disregarded it at the time. I believe he took it down himself for his own safety. It was brought to my attention some time in 2018 / 2019 when I was purchasing the wooden
Scam Busted piece that there was a crackteam of forum members tracking WoodCollector through all the public information he was posting and everything else they could gather. I saw pictures of his supposed house and was given other links to very personal information. Along with the Culture Cultivation piece and the CoA I posted earlier I received the full packing slip dox of WoodCollector. The member that sent it had made it public but I asked him to take it down, though this wasn't the first time I had seen the same dox. I decided against my own investigation into the name on the packing slip but one day I probably will be bored and see what I can find.