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I warned you guys! be careful when dealing with this seller. Nice items but many bids on his listings are "fake".

Now let's have a look at a first class rising sun. y***n 187 is back again. He raised the price of the auction nicely. Shortly afterwards the exact same set was offered on YJ.

Next one is a cased sacred treasure breast star. The winning bidder was y***n (187). This exact same cased breast star was relisted again. http://www.ebay.com/itm/D2072-fjFk-WW2-Japanese-The-Order-of-the-Sacred-Treasure-2nd-Class-Medal-navy/121250472819?_trksid=p2047675.m1850&_trkparms=aid%3D222002%26algo%3DSIC.FIT%26ao%3D1%26asc%3D11%26meid%3D4048831369661237826%26pid%3D100011%26prg%3D1005%26rk%3D3%26rkt%3D5%26sd%3D111200874207%26 And who happens to be the first bidder? Oh yes it is y***n (187). So what he wanted it then didn't pay and now he wants it again? Come on!

What a madness. So who is the winning bidder? The member has one (1) transaction and bid 8 times (!) on this item. By the way I wouldn't trust the one with a feedback of eleven (11) either. Of course it's back for sale again. http://www.ebay.com/itm/D2064-jjFk-REPLICA-Order-Golden-Kite-5th-class-Medal-Japanese-Army-Navy-/111253293484

Number one on the list is a really interesting one. ensai-so-ken (on ebay) and hannari875 (on YJ). Most of his sales are on ebay with currently 2600 transaction and zero negative feedback and only 178 transactions on YJ and one negative feedback. But let's have a look behind the curtain. The first suspicious sale is a replica of a 5th class golden kite. The selling price alone should be a giveaway - $511 !!

Money, eh? Yes, it's always about money! The fakers aren't the only ones who try to steal our money. Dishonest sellers do too. Let's perpetuate the names of those fraudsters.

On that one it is done pretty neat. Nice quality workmanship

fake-fake-fake stay away from them

Now I'm interested, too. I spotted this one as well but it seemed fine to me.

Nice. Did you buy it? What's your impression? One or two pictures for illustration purposes would be great.

Oh right I just noticed - it's not on the German ebay site but the seller is from Germany and equally sells on ebay.de and .com

German ebay, eh? http://www.ebay.com/itm/370970772050?ssPageName=STRK:MEWAX:IT&_trksid=p3984.m1423.l2649

Well, ya know this is the reissue as suspension instead of screw back

Additionally it should be said that Japanese lacquerware consists of multiple lacquer coatings of which only one is coloured. The others are clear.

Well, then it was probably made that way. After all the reddish-brown colour is not rare on Japanese lacquerware. Not as common as black colour but certainly nothing special. Nonetheless for illustration purposes the aforementioned vase. First the original black colour and then the "charred" spot.

Well if the black lacquer fades it has exactly this reddish colour. But I've seen very old japanese lacquerware which retained it's black colour perfectly even after several hundreds of years

they can also fade if the proportion is done correctly but the sun is directly shining on them over a long period. As Nick described it they "burn out". It happened to my poor urushi vase which was standing on the windowsill. By the way the only colored man made material which is almost unaffected by sunlight is enamel.

Interestingly the pebbles are concave just as the ones on the crown I posted in #19 which I thought might have a soldered crown.

That's true. But it looks promising.

I think this has definitely a soldered crown. Shadows beneath the rays

Oh my god! I'm blown away What a collection!

Well, how did it feel? I mean you're fame. Sadly it didn't last a whole day Now your a washed up has-been