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    Wolseley1868

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    1. One thing I have noticed about the K to K fakes is that the hollow on the back of the medal is very scrappy and uneven looking.
    2. Thanks very much for your advice and kind words. The trouble is all the books I have including British Battles and Medals by Spink have lousy photos of the medals so they are pretty useless as a way of trying to spot the fake. Clearly fakers make more from faking rare medals, but that does not seem to stop them faking the common ones. I bought a fake RAF lsgc medal few years ago for £35, they will fake anything. Many IGSMs are worth more than the K to K star and I read somewhere that the original die for the IGSM has been used in replicas. I have an IGSM I bought from one well known dealer that I am not at all sure about but cannot say for definite whether it is the real Maccoy or not. It has a slight dotting on it and the edge does not look quite right, it is not as sharp as I think it should be. Sadly I don't have access to a camera right now so I cant put up a photo of it and ask for opinions. The other thing is I already have a K K star and I still couldn't see anything wrong with the one to Jas Clarke. I bought it from a well known dealer who seems to have new stars coming in all the time, suspicious? I wonder how many of these stars were issued to British troops, not many I should think. I'll continue to collect but now that I have all the most important medals from 1854 I will have to be very careful what I buy and only from Dixons from now on. I cannot risk spending say £hundreds on fakes.
    3. Hello, I have just joined this very interesting website. I have only been collecting for a few years but I have quite a nice little collection now covering the period from the Crimean to the Korean wars. I find Victorian military history fascinating and eventually hope to have a collection with a medal for every campaign. I like the fact that you can study the battles and the history of the particular recipient as well in most cases. However I am very concerned about buying fakes. Earlier this week I googled 1643 Jas Clarke during an idle moment and found this link here on GMIC which indicates that the medal is a fake, I breathed a sigh of relief because the day before (8th October 2017) the same but complete star sold on Ebay for about £60. I had been seriously thinking about putting a high bid in and was at first annoyed with myself for not doing so. The listing photos were pretty good and the star looked correct. Further google hits show it as sold on at least two other auction house sites and I believe I've seen it on one of the bigger militaria shops in the country. There seem to be a lot of very good fakes out there. I had thought it was just the Air Crew Europe star but I am doubting my ability to spot a fake IGSM now. At least with the ACE star there are clear ways of checking it - the position of the "v" in relation to the "w", but I was wondering are there any similar ways of checking other medals as to whether or not they are fakes? Any advice would be appreciated.
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