otoman sword for id

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Originally Posted by ALEX

I was holding my tongue as not to offend anyone. Thankfully, Ariel said it all quite nicely.

Yes he did. And here I was trying to be as diplomatic as possible for the same reason as you state...

You also touch up on an important point, something I think we all have experienced as part of the learning curve inherent to collecting: it's easy for collectors to find something right about a piece to justify its acquisition. However, the wise path is to recognize what's wrong.

And with regards to this particular example, unfortunately there is far more that's wrong with it than is right.