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Originally Posted by LOUIEBLADES
Fernando
It's nice but it's not my area but I have seen a ton of these on ebay and I my doubts on it's age. 
Lew |
Sorry for the late reaction in thanking your input, Lew.
Yes, the problem is that i don't use ebay ... for good and for bad
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After your hint i went there and confirmed they have zillions of these at offer. Probably 'my' seller didn't buy this specimen directly from that auctioner, but i guess the original provenance is the same. I have also been reading a couple articles on applying old Russian hallmarks in recent stuff, to increase their value; so this must be the case. Not that the piece is junk, or without a relative value; but the antique hallmark trick is a fraud and pulls up the price to an unreal level ... in other words, i was robbed, having paid some three times as much as it should be, assuming the piece is contemporaneous.
Just wait untill i see the seller in the next fair; if nothing else, i will eat his brain, and threaten him with the burning of his image, plus fraud cumplicity
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Having said that, i regret for not having received any posting with coments on the thematic area, like whether the symbols represented in this yad have their plausibility, the fake hallmarks not interfering with it.
So bad
Thanks again
Fernando