Hi Everyone!

Thank you all so much for your replies to my 
posting :) All of your information really helped 
me! 

The cel that I am seriously considering spending 
around $1000 for is a very beautiful Battle Angel 
Alita (AKA Gunnm) cel. It's from my favorite 
scene in the entire movie :) 

What I meant when I said that someone could 
possibly turn a $5 cel into a $500 cel was 
someone could take a really crappy cel from Gunnm 
for example, clean the cel, erase the pencil 
sketch, and in turn create a beautiful A-1 head 
shot of Gally. Then the cel would have the 
correct paper etc.

Anyway, the main reason that I posted my question 
was because I think that I may have been suckered 
into buying a fake cel that someone tried to pass 
on as a real one :(

I paid around $245 or something for this cel.

http://heavenlyflower.freeservers.com/gally_runnin
g_color.jpg
http://heavenlyflower.freeservers.com/gally_runnin
g_sketch.jpg

(Their not the greatest images but I can get 
better ones :)

It came from Battle Angel. Since then (Around 
December 2001) I bought 2 more Battle Angel 
cel's, The most amazing cel of Greweicia with a 
even more wonderful pencil sketch (My best deal 
ever!), and other pretty one of Gally also with a 
pencil sketch. 

Well the other day I brought out my cel's (I have 
4 lol :) to admire them and noticed something 
strange about this one:

1. If you look at the pencil sketch of the one I 
think is fake in comparison to the other 2 I 
noticed that the pencil sketch paper on 
the "fake" one is really thin. The pencil 
sketch's to my other 3 cel's (2 Gunnm and 1 from 
Galaxy Express) are like normal paper. They're 
heaver

2. Another thing that bugged me is that on all of 
the Gunnm cel's/pencil sketches that I've seen 
(And all of the other cel's) are the holes on the 
top. The center is a circle, and the 2 side one's 
are oval looking things. BUT on the pencil sketch 
of the "fake" cel, instead of oval things, it has 
rectangles!!! (The holes on the cel itself are 
oval things :)

3. When you turn the cel over it has residue of a 
stuck pencil sketch in some places. But when you 
look at the pencil sketch, there is absolutely no 
tearing or residue. I know the from my testing 
of "Detaching" the cel's from their sketches, you 
can always see where it was attached on the 
pencil sketch.

(Continued at part 2 :)