Royal Warwickshire and KSLI

[Ashton]

Originally Posted by Luke H

I did not say he physically made them. However I am certain he was likely involved in the commissioning of further new dies for his later expanded catalogue volumes. My point was over the years some of these dies have moved between various manufacturers. The ‘Martin Marsh fakes/repros’ are termed as such because they are the ones pictured in his catalogue of wares.

i can see how quite a lot of collectors do not understand how it work Dealer A has a die made and takes it to stamping firm X they stamp out the order and dealer A sells the badges on to other dealers
Dealer A runs out of that badge and gets a better deal from stamper Y so he uses them for the next batch its noting sinister just normal practice but they may be slightly different in construction
Or Dealer M just visits Gladmanns and buys a selrction of their range off the shelf and ebays them along side of a few he buys from several small firm making them. Loads of these dies have been around since John Morris did them in the late 60s