Posted 06/13/2016 09:32 am
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Silly question perhaps, but if everything else is fake, why do you think that the knife is real?
I agree that the spade seems dubious, and the others are some fantasy items.
But "a man is known by the company he keeps" and I am suspicious of anything travelling with a group of fakes/ fantasies.
Silly question perhaps, but if everything else is fake, why do you think that the knife is real?
I agree that the spade seems dubious, and the others are some fantasy items.
But "a man is known by the company he keeps" and I am suspicious of anything travelling with a group of fakes/ fantasies.
The style is correct, as in it is thin, the rims and characters are sharp and thin. The patina looks like that of genuine coins, and the knife is bent. There is also a casting sprue present, which I have yet to see on a fake specimen, but I see them often on genuine coins. I have seen dozens of fake Ming knives on ebay (curiously I can't find any from the last 90 days), and this does not look like them.
