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<p>[QUOTE="DragonflyWink, post: 2707506, member: 111"]Punching a vent-hole with a sharp object like that is just odd, and it left a protrusion that would inhibit proper finishing (from your first pic of the back, didn't even occur to me that it was a vent-hole) - why would Unger do something like that? Unger Bros. pieces have been faked for decades, and being hollow doesn't necessarily indicate it's genuine - if you've researched, then surely you've seen the 1998 Silver Magazine article by Janet Zapata linked below - at least they used a drill, and since I've seen some insist their piece must be genuine because the mark doesn't include the 'dot', it's an anomaly found on that particular piece, not all fakes.</p><p><br /></p><p><a href="https://www.smpub.com/ubb/Forum10/HTML/000332.html" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://www.smpub.com/ubb/Forum10/HTML/000332.html" rel="nofollow">https://www.smpub.com/ubb/Forum10/HTML/000332.html</a></p><p><br /></p><p>You asked for opinions, to my eye, your piece has some issues...</p><p><br /></p><p>~Cheryl[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>
[QUOTE="DragonflyWink, post: 2707506, member: 111"]Punching a vent-hole with a sharp object like that is just odd, and it left a protrusion that would inhibit proper finishing (from your first pic of the back, didn't even occur to me that it was a vent-hole) - why would Unger do something like that? Unger Bros. pieces have been faked for decades, and being hollow doesn't necessarily indicate it's genuine - if you've researched, then surely you've seen the 1998 Silver Magazine article by Janet Zapata linked below - at least they used a drill, and since I've seen some insist their piece must be genuine because the mark doesn't include the 'dot', it's an anomaly found on that particular piece, not all fakes. [URL]https://www.smpub.com/ubb/Forum10/HTML/000332.html[/URL] You asked for opinions, to my eye, your piece has some issues... ~Cheryl[/QUOTE]
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