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<p>[QUOTE="smallaxe, post: 4532389, member: 13430"]I can't point to anything that solidly backs this, but after examining these photos a while, I think this is a repro item. It may come out of the mountain man re-enactor crowd. My main comparison is plains items, so if this is well away from there, I could be wrong. The things that put me off:</p><p>If authentic, I think metal points on arrows would be more likely (but less cool),</p><p>The soiling doesn't look authentic,</p><p>The cutout design isn't common,</p><p>The exposed stitching doesn't fit the skill authentic stuff would show,</p><p>It's hard to tell for sure from photos, but at least some leather looks like brain tan, but different parts are of really different tan quality, some pretty scabby,</p><p>Hair on seems uncommon,</p><p>Bow looks pretty rudimentary.</p><p>Here's a newly made repro for comparison: <a href="http://www.primitivearcher.com/smf/index.php?topic=13593.0" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="http://www.primitivearcher.com/smf/index.php?topic=13593.0" rel="nofollow">http://www.primitivearcher.com/smf/index.php?topic=13593.0</a>[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>
[QUOTE="smallaxe, post: 4532389, member: 13430"]I can't point to anything that solidly backs this, but after examining these photos a while, I think this is a repro item. It may come out of the mountain man re-enactor crowd. My main comparison is plains items, so if this is well away from there, I could be wrong. The things that put me off: If authentic, I think metal points on arrows would be more likely (but less cool), The soiling doesn't look authentic, The cutout design isn't common, The exposed stitching doesn't fit the skill authentic stuff would show, It's hard to tell for sure from photos, but at least some leather looks like brain tan, but different parts are of really different tan quality, some pretty scabby, Hair on seems uncommon, Bow looks pretty rudimentary. Here's a newly made repro for comparison: [URL]http://www.primitivearcher.com/smf/index.php?topic=13593.0[/URL][/QUOTE]
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