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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Bronwen, post: 348768, member: 5833&quot;]Edit: See you have already come to a conclusion.&nbsp; It is sensible, I think.&nbsp; Certainly you need much more information before deciding to buy.&nbsp; Here is my reply anyway.</p><p><br /></p><p>This is out of my area of expertise.&nbsp; My concern with war time acquisition is not so much with real/fake as it is with the legitimacy of how it was acquired.&nbsp; This needs to be considered about something if it came back from Germany with an American.&nbsp; (Where does the book say it was before the war?)</p><p><br /></p><p>I agree with komokwa.&nbsp; If I were considering such a purchase, I would want the opportunity to do a little checking on the provenance first, to see if it is even plausible.&nbsp; McHale is new on Ruby Lane but have been in business they say for <a href="http://mchalesilverwares.com/index.php/welcome/" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="http://mchalesilverwares.com/index.php/welcome/" rel="nofollow">40 years</a>.&nbsp; My feeling is that they honestly believe the piece is what they say it is &amp; they seem to do their research.&nbsp; Still feel it is reasonable on your part to ask them how they (&amp; you) can be sure it is not a fake &amp; that whoever sold it to the American had the right to sell it.</p><p><br /></p><p>There is a lot on the Internet concerning fake/reproduction Prussian medals, badges &amp; coins.&nbsp; If there are a lot of fakes/reproductions of items like the tazza, they are not showing up in the top search results.</p><p><br /></p><p>Just as general advice, it may not be wise to spend a lot of money on anything of this sort when you do not yourself have the expertise to confirm or question the seller&#039;s representation.&nbsp; I&#039;m confident in my ability to assess cameos from the last 200 years; I do not buy ones represented as ancient Greek or Roman because I know I do not know enough to tell real from fake, good from bad, reasonable price from outrageous.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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