Thanks Demir. And congratulations you got your money back. I think he knows why he does this...
That's a difficult and long discussion, we are having it in Germany quite often, and never all agree. It's even more difficult with people from three countries, that speak three different languages, I guess.
Don did it sum up well, at least my point of view. There's a big, a huge difference between examples that are of non-official makers, made to be worn by real reciepients, and those that are recently made to fool someone. The main difference between fakes and copies: the maker's (or seller's) intention.
A well-know German expert speaks of originals and not-originals. The latter includes anything, that is not the awarded, contemporary, officially made award. While e.g. a Godet made 1920s war medal cannot be an "original" in it's actual meaning, it is not a fake. It's not intended to deceive, and Godet probably did never claim they were of WW1 era Ottoman manufacture - why should they. So it's neither an original, nor a fake. It must be something else: a (contemporary, wearer's) copy.
It would be great, if we could agree in this very points.
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