palencia Posted April 29, 2010 Share Posted April 29, 2010 I read in several occasions, which in the 70, the market was flooded with falsifications of German orders, and I have some doubts about this: 1.- Are they quality copies?, is it difficult to differentiate an originial of a copy? 2.- Which were the falsified orders?, the Order of the Zähringen Lion is one of them? 3.- Has someone some pics of these fakes to compare? Regards Enrique Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
saschaw Posted April 29, 2010 Share Posted April 29, 2010 I'm not aware they faked Zähringer Lions. But faked almost anything else... Easy to recognize if you know them, impossible to if you are not aware. Unfortunally I've no pictures handy. BDOS (German medal collector siciety) has a magazine in which those fakes were shown and explained over the years very well. You'll find dozens of articles on this very issue there - unfortunally in German and mostly, back in the 90s, with rather bad pictures. Andreas Thies e.g. somtimes offers some of these fakes - as fakes. His catalogues are online available as pdf files on his site. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
NavalMark Posted April 30, 2010 Share Posted April 30, 2010 Oldenburg, Hausorden Großkomturstern. Fake of this period .......... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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