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All the items in the links are non genuine items being sold as genuine.
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not defending the seller but we need to be careful |
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They are all described as used and there is no mention of them being fake/reproduction.
I personally think people are wasting their time highlighting fake stuff on here because as long as people including members of this forum continue to buy from the sellers and auctioneers who persistently flog this stuff (even if the odd badge is fine) the problem will never go away Paul |
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some T&Cs at an auction today.
It still didn’t stop people bidding stupid money at their sale |
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They surely couldn't get away with those T&Cs at Christie's when they are selling million dollar art works.
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Ahh but Simon,
They have similar qualifications, to me some auction houses are sinking to rag and bone men, actually that’s probably a slant on the men with a cart as they would more likely have genuine items-so my apologies to all rag and bone men. |
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This may or may not sound arrogant but with what I collect I have no problems verifying whether it is genuine but I have spent years researching my subject. It doesn't bother me that people don't or don't do any research on what they collect but then they shouldn't complain if they get conned. Another problem is, including on this forum, collectors only ever get told whether an item is genuine or fake. Rarely are they told why it is fake and what distinguishes the genuine item from the fake one. Some collectors believe this alerts the people who get fakes made. It may alert them but I have never seen any evidence to show that they make items as good as the originals from having that knowledge.
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aged repro cloth - will never look, feel and smell the same as WW2 |
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That said, no one is infallible. Simon. (Fifty years collecting and still learning). |
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It seems that you may have missed my point. 100 years from now, after the items have aged naturally, there will be no one alive who remembers what WW2 cloth felt or smelt like.
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I am going to be the first collector put into the deep freeze |
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The amount of time collecting or the experience doesn't mean one is good at what they do. I have never understood why people think that because someone has done something for a long time that they must be good at what they do.
I don't know you maybe, but there are certainly others that aren't. No-one learns everything but some learn a lot more than others.
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Funny I have never smelt cloth to help me to decide it's age. I must be a noob.
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