Oldenburg Oldenburg House Order Copies

[Yankee]

Dear GMIC Members

For most it is common knowledge that Oldenburg has an enormous amount of high quality fakes in circulation & a good many are being valued as orginals. In regards to the stars & officer class examples there is a simple step that will allow collectors to differentiate a good example from a bad one. All genuine Bernard Knauer examples should have his first initial B stamped as B KNAUER on the reverse.

Examples without the B and reads only KNAUER should be avoided & treated as post 1918 copies.

Sincerely

Yankee

[paul wood]

Any one have an illustration of the two types for comparison.

Paul

[Claudio]

Interesting Paul... what about these ones offered on a German auction last weekend? Do you see any copies??

http://www.zeige.com/index2.html see under Oldenburg

For instance this one, that remained unsold:

http://www.zeige.com/cgi-bin/cat-art-index.pl?art_no=66&rubrik=1700&lang=d&kat=auktionskatalog

[Yankee]

Grand Commander