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    Fake Orders for Personal Courage: Baltic Vintage


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    Hi Nick,

    a very interesting comparison.

    "The first wave of high-quality faked Orders for Personal Courage came to the market around 2003-2004"

    To my knowledge we had earlier copies/fakes before 2003.

    And that is my problem. I bought this medal around the middle of the 90s, for a very low price.

    It must be a better copie/fake?

    Uwe

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    Hi Uwe,

    indeed very nice fake!

    Better copy than "Baltic" Courage?

    Hmmm.

    It hasn't typical for "Baltic" Courage flows, but it has it own and quite profound flows ;)

    Serious problems with shades of white (especially) and red enamel.

    Too embossed line under the number.

    Wrong handwriting of course ...

    Interesting that MONDVOR has #250 http://mondvor.narod.ru/OLMuzh.html and earlier I showed # 255 :lol:

    But overall very impressive quality, especially for mid 90s!

    150 DM? ;)

    Regards,

    Nick

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    Forget to mentioned another terrible, unacceptable (:lol:) flow - "splashed" gold gilt at obverse ...

    Our Baltic beauties wouldn't allow themselves something like that ;)

    Not to mentioned that they actually made in silver and have correct weight (approximately, ee) and dimensions.

    Cheers,

    Nick

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    • 11 months later...

    Sad but true story

    So there was an auction...

    A nice cased order ...

    With doc...

    At first glance (and on the second too ;)) doc looks original as well and the order

    This one dosn`t have any (quite obvious) "baltic" signs ....

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    On 03/04/2020 at 18:50, Bob said:

    Very useful thread.

    Question: how would you qualify the documented one on www.dmitrymarkov.com ?

    Haven't bought from him in years but, how shall I say this nicely?  His quality control may be a bit lacking.  Or at least it was.  I only use his site to d/l his auction catalog images for reference.

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