Eastern European and Russian fakes are common(some are even so old, they can count as genuine antiques on their own right) but there is also a new wave of Syrian fake antique kilijs here in Turkey. Syria has always been a popular place of kilij reproduction production for tourist market with varying degrees of quality; and recent tragic civil war caused this tourist pieces entering illegaly through southern border in thousands. Those tourist pieces are being sold in the market as the real deal for really high prices. Long koftgari inscription with huge letters going all the way through the surface a late period formed, wide and unfullered blade is the most common example of this.
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