Wheellock pistols (17th century)

[Dom]

Aïe, aïe Jean-Marc
it starts to become really a poison, all these copies ... without mention that it's just replicas
not only "Turkey or Afghanistan" (in Turkey, manpower too much expensive),
but "China, Pakistan, India,
in India I know one, but honest, he sells his replicas, as replicas ... i.e.; Islamic Astrolabes, for instance
they have very skilled workers able to made a perfect copy as far as they have a model
and then, the problems are;
- sometimes, the materials used are of lower quality, that to increase the margin profit
- they privilege industrial technology instead of manual fabrications, for the same reasons

conclusions; from far ... it's looks antic, but when they arrive home, it's a complete disillusion

since two or three years, I'm confused with "Islamic talismanic bowls", replicas from Indian continent,
sold as originals, but I found a way to differentiate with a probability of 90%
but it's still annoying

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Dom