Tibetan sword: real?????

[VANDOO]

THE RED CORAL LOOKS LIKE THE DYED CORAL COMING OUT OF CHINA IN MASS. FOR AN EXAMPLE OF HOW GOOD CHINESE FORGERYS CAN BE TAKE A LOOK AT EBAY ITEM 160122843989. THEY ARE MAKEING SOME VERY CONVINCING OLD AMERICAN COINS SO FAR THEY ARE LISTED AS COPYS OR REPLICAS I GUESS TO AVOID BREAKING COUNTERFIT LAWS TO BLATANTLY. I WAS LOOKING AT THE SMALL STONE CARVINGS WHEN I RAN ACROSS THE COINS. IF YOU WANT TO SEE A WIDE VARIETY OF COINS BEING MADE SEE THE SELLERS OTHER ITEMS.

[Bill M]

Originally Posted by VANDOO

THE RED CORAL LOOKS LIKE THE DYED CORAL COMING OUT OF CHINA IN MASS. FOR AN EXAMPLE OF HOW GOOD CHINESE FORGERYS CAN BE TAKE A LOOK AT EBAY ITEM 160122843989. THEY ARE MAKEING SOME VERY CONVINCING OLD AMERICAN COINS SO FAR THEY ARE LISTED AS COPYS OR REPLICAS I GUESS TO AVOID BREAKING COUNTERFIT LAWS TO BLATANTLY. I WAS LOOKING AT THE SMALL STONE CARVINGS WHEN I RAN ACROSS THE COINS.

Interesting. A Chinese seller admitting he sells copies. What is the world coming to?

When I grew up, my father's newspaper printing business was in a questionable part of downtown Atlanta. Street bums were always trying to cadge a bit of change. Usually the excuse was they needed to get something to eat or to get out of town and needed bus fare. However the local, nearby bars were where they headed.

One day a guy came up to me and said, "Buddy, I aint gonna lie to you. I need 50 cents for a cold beer." I though this was a refreshingly honest guy and gave him a dollar.

Walking smugly along I was accosted by another bum. He began, "Buddy, I ain't gonna lie to you....."

[spiral]

Intresting that the sellers currently listing 10 variations of Tibet sword.

To me most of the blades look real. old & laminated. {Hard to belive but they do look right, even the pitting looks genuine.}

Amazing array of modern scabbards & handels though including another one in identicle tone of buffalo horn.

Nepal is full of rusty old blades, perhaps this was a similar cache from Tibet or Bhutan etc. {or even Nepal, China India,.]

Re handled , new scabbards & straight on to ebay.

Doubt if Chinese customs would be concerned about these blades somehow, hardly Chinese heritage.

But sadley overpriced.

Spiral

ps if the blades are fake, their getting good at ageing.

[ariel]

I am glad I started this thread.
When professional collectors cannot agree on the authenticity of an object, there is a high chance we are dealing with a very high-class forgery.
Currently, the seller lists 10 old Tibetan swords/daggers ranging between $500-$2,500. Each one looks perfectly old and authentic.

[Michael Blalock]

The sword could be genuine. They have a lot of very overpriced genuine looking antiquies, as much as $99,000.00 buy it now, then there are the $39.00 rugs. I think the stuff over a couple of hundred is just there to get hits on their site. If you go to their website they specialize in mass produced rugs. I would be supprised if you bid you would win the sword. There is another Chinese survey equipment company that does the same thing. They produce a cheap instument and also sell quality ones at a very high price, which only seem to be pruchased by chinese.

[spiral]

I reckon if you bid $2000 on one of those at least half fake rusty bits of junk sword they will be happy to let you have it!


There multiple thousand dollar pieces of Antique Tibetan woodwork, I can see are brand new, like within last few months. {I used to work as a cabinet maker.} So perhaps Ariel is right.

If even the blades are fake, its the realist fake pitting Ive ever seen. Or is it? I guess the best fakes are never recognised as such.

Thats a sobering thought.

Spiral

[BBJW]

Obvious fake. Scabbard looks cheesy and blade shape isn't right.

bbjw