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Posts: 13 Location: Opole, Poland

Wed 21 Feb, 2007 4:09 am

Very interesting items on auction...but Are they Genuine?

http://www.allegro.pl/show_user_auctions.php?uid=1596005

This is a link to a polish internet auction of a collector from Krakow. Can Those items be real? Or they are fakes...
Am I dreaming or what, if Theyd be real, theyd be worth fortune...

But the auction is strange, all items in such a good shape...If they are replics, are they modern or old? What do You think about it?

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Dan Howard

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Posts: 3,642 Location: Maitland, NSW, Australia

Wed 21 Feb, 2007 4:50 am

If they were real they would not be on an internet auction. They would be sold illegally on the black market.

That Greek Helmet they have listed is a kegelhelm dated to around 700BC. An original is worth many hundreds of thousands of dollars.

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Maciej Cierkosz

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Posts: 13 Location: Opole, Poland

Wed 21 Feb, 2007 6:08 am

I`ve talked to a specialist and now I`m pretty sure that those are replicas, bought at museums before II World War. In that time museums were selling nearly exact copies of real artifacts.

Fake or not, items are great I think:)

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Bruno Giordan

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Thu 22 Feb, 2007 2:57 pm

Maciej Cierkosz wrote:

This info about exact replicas made by museums is very interesting, I had neevr heard of it.

Could you please say more or get more infos yourself?

It seems an intelligent politic this one, t could help many present day museums in great financial difficulties.

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