A useful reference for fakes perhaps ?

[Marcus H]

This link may be useful to some in identification of the numerous fakes out there

At least you can pop some of these pictures in your fake files.

http://capral.webzone.ru/indexen.htm

Kr

Marcus

Edited September 2, 2005 by Marcus H

[Christophe]

This site is well known of the Soviet awards collectors. There are here a number of good quality copies (or fakes, as they have false serial numbers).

Ch.

[Guest steve1]

That site scared the life out of me!!!!

[Paul R]

Some of them are pretty scary... Yet most were not. Thankfully, there are a few things they did not get right! (at least in the areas of the Soviet Awards)

Paul

Edited September 30, 2005 by Paul Reck

[DanCz]

Thank you for drawing our attention to that site Marcus - very interesting - some of those pieces featured are very good copies indeed - - try imagine what they would be like artificially "aged" - would certainly fool the new or novice collector !! (and maybe a few of us old timers too!!!!)