Fake Confederate Dog Tag On Ebay

Here's a link to a fantasy or fake Confederate identification disk that's currently up for bids:

http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dl...keTrack=true

I contacted the seller and am awaiting his reply. These appear periodically and have sold to unwary buyers for many hundreds of dollars. The modern day maker of these fakes used the names of real Confederate soldiers like Pender (this one), Vairin, Washington and others from different states and regiments.

Here's a link to Krause's book on antique fakes which elaborates on this issue in some detail (page 60):

http://books.google.com/books?id=Zf...akes&f=false


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