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E-bay always had a sprinkling of dealers selling fake swords.
Several years ago they became almost insignificant vis-a-vis an onslaught of fakers from China: brazen, greedy, totally tasteless but , fortunately, pretty predictable and, often, pathetically stupid. Then there was a new influx: India. Those were much more sophisticated, sold higher quality fakes and occasionally even hinted at truth. Those were "half-fakers". It seems to me that we are in the middle of two large waves: Georgia (pushing gaudy , stamped "Cossack" shashkas and kindjals) and Malaysia/Indonesia/Philippines , with arsenal quantities of Panabases, kampilans, Mandaus etc, etc. Some of them are so pathetic that even a non-specialist like myself can detect the fake. Some, probably, are good enough to fool an expert (after all, how sophisticated one needs to be to forge a "primitive" weapon and to make it look worn and dirty?) Am I missing any other wave ? |
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I have seen some fake African tribal stuff as of late on ebay. Lew |
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Spoken like a true lawyer....
By fake I mean a low (or lower) quality weapon produced en masse or in small series, using contemporary techniques and with the purpose of presenting it as a real antique item and selling it for a price appropriate for a real item. A "fake" can be : -"total" (Witness Chinese " eximious Japanense samurai commanding officer katana in a rosewood vagina" -"partial" ie old blade in contemporary scabbard etc There may be others. Quoting Bill -the -Prez, " it depends on what your definition of is is" Did I pass the bar? Last edited by ariel; 15th April 2006 at 03:57 AM. |
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