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Originally Posted by Nozzer
A genuine Gaunt marked badge for reference.
Again, notice the curve on the base of the crown.
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Nice badge Andy. I’ve also seen them with the rarer curved Gaunt mark on the slider.
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Originally Posted by Amy
I agree with Luke. Martin and his mum (Margaret?) sold these in large numbers 10-20 years back from somewhere in Dorset...Weymouth maybe (?) so most of these repro's will now have built up twenty years worth of patina? Very sad.
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Martin began producing catalogues in the late-1980s when he was based in Whaley Bridge near Stockport before moving to Weymouth, Dorset sometime later. Many of the ‘new’ fake dies he used had been extant since the 1970s fake flood so some of these badges have 50 years worth of patina.