Hi, one must remember, when dealing with auction houses and on line auctions, their job is to sell. Not to know, authenticate, or guarantee anything at all, but to collect a commission for selling. An honest E bay seller who works hard and accepts returns is quite different than someone who just sells for a cut. When it comes to just being an all out crook, this is another animal altogether. Be it identity theft, stealing outright, robbing at gunpoint, or faking things of value, [coins, artwork, baseball cards , etc. etc.], wherever there is an easy dollar, they will be there looking for prey. I have seen fake $10 tinnies, I guess that if your printing money, you print fives and tens, not hundreds. These people have no morals or conscience. Sometimes I think of what they go through to run their scams is more work than an honest living. Some of these people are just sick, and get off knowing they have got away with doing something wrong. As collectors, we must arm ourselves against this evil element by being aware and knowledgeable. I could rant and rave all day on this, so instead I am going to take this time to thank everyone involved here, on this GREAT site. I have found more helpful people, than anywhere else, who give a part of themselves for the benefit of all, and this crazy hobby we are all caught up in.
100% positive feedback from 100% suckers who jave no idea what they are buying.
BOB
LIFE'S LOSERS NEVER LEARN FROM THE ERROR OF THEIR WAYS.
Sure do:
Start - Kyffh
F These bugles can be found on many sites and markets sold as originals with all kinds of badges added. Even reputable dealers seem to fall for them without really paying much attention. Most of the examples I have seen appear to come from the same makers in Pakistan / India. Let's face it if we think about it, kit that has been in the trenches has a look and patina worlds away from these tourist trinkets not to mention that they are simply "wrong" in themselves. This bugle would look right only in a theme pub!
Regards
Mark
"War is an ugly thing, but not the ugliest of things. A man who has nothing for which he is willing to fight, nothing he cares more about than his own personal safety, is a miserable creature with no chance of being free unless made and kept so by the exertions of better men than himself."
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