The Artisanal Spirits Share Discussion Threads

[cockneyrebel] 30/10/2011 16:19

I have just completed one of Ayrton Senna and that's definitely him and the right car - will have it on the website tis week :-)

CR

[cockneyrebel] 30/10/2011 16:12

I think you're right actually - originally had it labeled as McLaren but someone suggested I changed it to Lewis Hamilton - think I need to change the title or change the car number and helmet :-)

Will sort that - ta.

CR

[jon827] 30/10/2011 15:57

Good paintings CR, although I have to point out a mistake in the labelling of your subject matter.

Your painting entitled 'Lewis Hamilton' is actually 'Heikki Kovalainen' driving the 2008 McLaren MP4-23

hope this helps

sanks

:)

[cockneyrebel] 30/10/2011 14:21

Hi greame - got a duff link there but google fonnd it - quite an interesting artist. I like the human body painted and the study of detail in the skin and veins in paintings. The one of the bull's head reminds me of the style of Van Goghs self portrait.

Sky Arts 1 has a good programme on Tuesday Evenings if you haven't seen it - Fame in the Frame, where ex art forger John Myatt paints various famous people into a famous old painting - an entertaining half hour.

Cheers for thr links too hazl.

CR

[hazl] 30/10/2011 14:01

good thread!

[jfishy55] 01/2/2011 17:23

Bought mine years ago...2000 maybe 1999.
Still holding, they are worth virtually nothing now.
Just another name to put on the list of people never to trust (like SD & MWM). It's a shame some people are so greedy they look after themselves to the cost of others but there are always some, the only thing you can do is live & learn.

[daytraders] 27/1/2011 20:42

yeh i bought £3k worth at 16p 25th april 2000, sold 8th may 2008 at 65p got just £292 for them.

[kangaroo joe] 27/1/2011 20:22

I guess one could say that this company is really the Chairman's family business through and through now; and the small shareholders are effectively out in the cold having invested with good intentions, and been mostly loyal; and some very long term holders too. Ultimately the small private shareholders have been screwed, and either diluted out, or frozen out, or managed out through various ingenious restructuring wheezes, and that's scant reward for their loyalty and capital! Shame on you, greedy so and so's! You will regret it one day.

[kangaroo joe] 04/1/2011 17:39

Will their bank renew the financing? Up for renewal on 1.7.11.
Presumably the negotiations are going well, but the bank will up its margins, or could it do worse? I got burnt with ScS!

[exel] 08/12/2010 11:28

sorry to hear that, van. mind you, a 3.1p sale (then) equates to circa 124p in today's share price (given the de facto 1 for 40 consolidation). maybe on reflection you did better than you thought at the time. back to today/yesterday, it seems to be buys ahead of sells, so the MM's quest for cheap shares, following the admittedly sobering AGM statement, appears not to be working yet. ex

[exel] 07/12/2010 19:10

some interesting trades today, can't work out if they were 'special people' being 'let in', or weak holders being shaken out, or maybe a bit of both?? would not have thought the MMs were sitting on too many, here, as they were happy to take back 15k online when I tried (but did not execute) a dummy sale. we'll never know. perhaps more of an ART than a science? ex

[exel] 07/12/2010 11:47

van - I would guess that was a bogus call for no good purpose. You did the right thing to choke it off. Quite a number of AIM shares appear to suffer from this problem, and I am not sure what the purpose is (ours are in nominees, so that obviates this possibility) but I would suggest that 'your bank details' would be high on 'their list' - and not to remit sales proceeds either. ex

[vaneric] 07/12/2010 09:59

I've just come back to this after a few years, have any of you had a cold call about ART? I had some guy on the phone last night wanting to talk about my Artisan shares, says I'm still registered as holding 500, I cut him off because I sold all mine years ago, but did I? :-) V.

[exel] 16/11/2010 16:38

a few more trades in the recent past, incl on PLUS, and some more downwards share price pressure, with little to suggest why, apart from the wider scene in the markets generally and in construction specifically. thoughts anyone? ex

[exel] 27/10/2010 13:50

no recent trades on PLUS, having just checked since the above. ex

ps - a couple of PLUS sales 28 & 29 Oct appear to have caused the offer to dip, and the spread to narrow.

[exel] 27/10/2010 12:43

tiny tick up (1 point on the 'offer' and no move on the 'bid') yesterday, on no apparent buys - in fact one small sale (but have not yet checked PLUS) so maybe the MM's have had another tot up and realised just how little stock they are holding here. ex

[exel] 25/10/2010 12:42

graham & jfishy, if you're both right (and I can't say, on that) then its in our interests (as minority holders) to keep the share price solid & supported by buying a few, here and there. There are very few sellers. I sense the reduced ART team are doing their best to keep the cash turning over and the business flowing - albeit in still v tough markets (n.b. planning permission hassles and mortgage funding denials being the major blocks to business right now - rather than demand per se). ex

[jfishy55] 23/10/2010 10:56

Graham, that is why I initiaaly wrote "hostile".
My opinions are exactly the same as yours.

[grahamg8] 23/10/2010 09:22

Well fishy I would count Aspen as hostile until proven otherwise. That is hostile to us pi's. With such a huge discount to asset value they should be finding ways of closing the gap for everyone's benefit. My suspision is however that they will try to find ways to keep all the upside to themselves and drive out the pi's at the lowest cost possible.