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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;afantiques, post: 217221, member: 25&quot;]My experience of antiques with dates on them is that they are almost always fakes. If there is a reason for the date such as a marriage item, they have more chance of being authentic but why would anyone date a plate in huge 20th C style numbers?</p><p><br /></p><p>If you made a routine plate in 2017 you&#039;d not date it. It&#039;s just &#039;this year&#039;. Why would anyone in 1668 do so? To them it was just &#039;this year&#039;</p><p>Places everywhere have markets full of supposed antiques for the foreign tourist with their guard down.They believe&nbsp; because they are far from home that the locals are ignorant and will sell valuable antiques for next to nothing because they have no idea what they have.</p><p><br /></p><p>This attitude fosters a lively trade in fakes and fantasy pieces.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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