Sold flag with intel stamp -- thoughts?

[tomp]

This flag recently sold, and I don't know what to think about it. Looks to be a weird mixture of Hangul and partial Japanese. That, plus the style of intel. stamp is one I am not familiar with. Thoughts?


Tom


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[ghp95134]

Fake. Don’t know if the flag itself is authentic, but the “Japanese” is a combination of poorly copied kanji and “Orientaleese”.

— Guy

[SNLF]

I was following that flag also and thought the written Kanji didn't look right to me.

[TarquiniusSuperbus]

I'm skeptical if even the flag itself is original, it could be, but I've never seen a Japanese flag with square corner reinforcements, I've only ever seen triangular. There's plenty of these flags out there, so always best to avoid one if there's any doubts about it.

[tomp]

Thanks, all. Didn't seem to make sense, but wanted other opinions on it.


Tom