Information Please about Ivory Ceremonial Staff and Hatchet

[Atlantia]

Originally Posted by A.alnakkas

Their faces are priceless xD Oh how much I wish to tell them that its a touristy item made in some basement... lol

They have been told Lotfy. I posted a comment on that site linked to explaining that the Kukri was a 1970s Indian made export item and it was deleted. I know other people sent them emails.
I'm guessing that this 'rare' Kukri won't make it to the public display that they mentioned.

In some ways museums are more likely to misidentify than collectors. Museums sometimes have the problem that their experience seems limited to genuine items and when they see fakes or reproductions they try to fit them into their sphere of knowledge.
Often it's the collectors who have more 'experience' of the later or reproduced items than the so-called experts.


Then of course there is 'expert syndrome' as well. lol