Most of these local auction houses are in small towns. So think about the logistics of prosecuting this...
The local sheriff is going to arrest the auctioneer. Then what?
The local prosecutor -- probably a district attorney with a few, if any, ADAS, is going to make a case how? Fly in high priced experts to testify the signatures are bad. Then the defense is going to claim "I didn't know... someone consigned them."
Case over. Auctioneer is acquitted.
And the local DA just spent half of his annual budget flying in experts on a losing case.
Not gonna happen.
Education of buyers, and public shaming of exposed auction houses is the only thing that will work in my opinion.
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