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Old 19-09-21, 04:27 PM
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Originally Posted by enfant perdus View Post
I'll be generous and ascribe this to incompetence rather than malice. The guy has a ton of stuff and I'm sure he thinks it's all genuine. A random flip through suggests a small amount is. Maybe he's one of those collectors who can't come to grips with the fact that he bought a lot of dross, or perhaps he's unaware of the pervasiveness of fakes and restrikes.

There's also a healthy dollop of laziness. Everything is titled as a cap badge, even when he also correctly identifies it as a shoulder tile, formation sign ,etc.

His prices are, um, optimistic.
The seller’s eBay shop description would suggest a business rather than collector.

Around a year ago I bought a very reasonably priced genuine Highland Cyclists from them. Since then they’ve had little new stock and most is rubbish or overpriced.

Rather I expect what’s happened is they’re a small business who bought a very large collection with a lot of repros and are now left with the chaff and an ‘online museum’.
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