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<p>[QUOTE="bercrystal, post: 220493, member: 88"]If you can show me one with legitimate Murano markings or an original box with legitimate markings than I will concede. Until than this is just a seller who is saying her item is Murano maybe because she was told it was Murano or maybe she decided to use that word to help sell her item.</p><p><br /></p><p>Sellers have been misidentifying stuff since the first person figured out if an item was ID'd as something special they could sell it easier. It definitely didn't begin with the internet. Over the years I have been shown stuff that people have bought at auctions, from antiques dealers, at flea markets, etc. & have been told that it was such & such. I than had the distasteful job of informing them otherwise. It sometimes was met with great disbelief & the remorse from the fact that they paid a lot of money.</p><p><br /></p><p>That is why most of us hang out here on this forum. We genuinely like helping others discover what they really have & believe me when it is truly an exceptional item we take great delight in informing the OP thusly.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>
[QUOTE="bercrystal, post: 220493, member: 88"]If you can show me one with legitimate Murano markings or an original box with legitimate markings than I will concede. Until than this is just a seller who is saying her item is Murano maybe because she was told it was Murano or maybe she decided to use that word to help sell her item. Sellers have been misidentifying stuff since the first person figured out if an item was ID'd as something special they could sell it easier. It definitely didn't begin with the internet. Over the years I have been shown stuff that people have bought at auctions, from antiques dealers, at flea markets, etc. & have been told that it was such & such. I than had the distasteful job of informing them otherwise. It sometimes was met with great disbelief & the remorse from the fact that they paid a lot of money. That is why most of us hang out here on this forum. We genuinely like helping others discover what they really have & believe me when it is truly an exceptional item we take great delight in informing the OP thusly.[/QUOTE]
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