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<p>[QUOTE="shamster, post: 9859517, member: 85821"]First of all, I would say that most fakes are simply ugly that you won't bother your time and money. As you mentioned Georgian fakes, which speaks well because they're just very poorly designed, not to mention the problems in material and making. I have to say some of the Thai Roman rings are not that bad if you ignore the strange color and ridiculous price and description, but well, tactics for low cost and fast sale.</p><p><br /></p><p>Secondly, you are right that we should always be cautious as there's no absolute 0 in the world of fake. Actually, the blue ring is bought from a Bulgarian seller and that's why it's the first to be presented to the ancient fake forum. However, experts there believed mine is fine as there's no sign of fakd aging and wearing, and the style is correct for post-medieval. The said seller has some suspicious gold rings for sale at that time too, but they're all roman, viking, byzantine, etc, and at significant lower price which is strange since they're always so popular and desirable. Anyway, it's never a good idea to by from seller with bad reputation. They do mix real things with fake to make their stuff more convincing, but the real ones could be probmatic as their origin is unclear and might be illegal.</p><p><br /></p><p>It is very true that fakers are getting better in this, but as I discussed before, personally, I feel like faking my rings will give minimum profit. At etsy, a 18k gold ring with simple medieval style will just sell for almost 2000 pounds and it's selling faster than the real one- so why bother faking if one can make more profit by making honest reproduction, giving that one has skill and taste? Also, as I said, why not faking stirrup ring which is much easier and economic to do and won't likely go wrong in details, compare to more complicated designs?</p><p><br /></p><p>If, after all, one still decide to fake, then I'm speachless. <img src="styles/default/xenforo/clear.png" class="mceSmilieSprite mceSmilie96" alt=":wacky:" unselectable="on" unselectable="on" />[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>
[QUOTE="shamster, post: 9859517, member: 85821"]First of all, I would say that most fakes are simply ugly that you won't bother your time and money. As you mentioned Georgian fakes, which speaks well because they're just very poorly designed, not to mention the problems in material and making. I have to say some of the Thai Roman rings are not that bad if you ignore the strange color and ridiculous price and description, but well, tactics for low cost and fast sale. Secondly, you are right that we should always be cautious as there's no absolute 0 in the world of fake. Actually, the blue ring is bought from a Bulgarian seller and that's why it's the first to be presented to the ancient fake forum. However, experts there believed mine is fine as there's no sign of fakd aging and wearing, and the style is correct for post-medieval. The said seller has some suspicious gold rings for sale at that time too, but they're all roman, viking, byzantine, etc, and at significant lower price which is strange since they're always so popular and desirable. Anyway, it's never a good idea to by from seller with bad reputation. They do mix real things with fake to make their stuff more convincing, but the real ones could be probmatic as their origin is unclear and might be illegal. It is very true that fakers are getting better in this, but as I discussed before, personally, I feel like faking my rings will give minimum profit. At etsy, a 18k gold ring with simple medieval style will just sell for almost 2000 pounds and it's selling faster than the real one- so why bother faking if one can make more profit by making honest reproduction, giving that one has skill and taste? Also, as I said, why not faking stirrup ring which is much easier and economic to do and won't likely go wrong in details, compare to more complicated designs? If, after all, one still decide to fake, then I'm speachless. :wacky:[/QUOTE]
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