Caveat emptor!!!

[ariel]

Originally Posted by ALEX

Remember, AssadUllah means "God's Lion", so ANY sword with Persian Lion stamp IS AssadUllah. It's not a person, it's a school.
I just saw a real AL blade (with old AL name stamp as a person, not a school, just like in the Fiegel catalogue) just for $4K. BUT how do you tell who put the stamp on

I have to repectfully disagree: Assad Ullah was a real person, just like Masamune in Japan, Andrea Ferrara in Italy and Geurk Elizarashvili in Georgia.
Collectors and museums pay high prices for their individual works and much lesser prices for their imitators.
A painting by "Van Gogh's contemporary" is unlikely to fetch $30 million
That is why some people collect just autographs: the hand of a famous person made it.
Any sword with a Persian Lion? Well, then a 40 yo Iranian Army sword with a Pahlavi stamp would qualify
And as for a blade with Assad Ullah's stamp going for $4K... the seller must have known what he was selling.... But, if true, the $18,000 price for one of the swords in question would be even harder to justify, isn't it?