Fake Badge "Honoured Railworker".

[Shocktrooper]

How about this one ? Seems to be a modern coined fake in great quality... !?

The reverse looks far too new, I think...

[marsino]

How about this one ? Seems to be a modern cioned fake in great quality... !?

Is the first that I see, is not in AVERS, end in http://soviet-awards.com/forum/soviet-mi...#post20308

[Shocktrooper]

Hello Marsino,

so you agree that it is a fake ?

[marsino]

Hello Marsino,

so you agree that it is a fake ?

In my humble opinion, this is not a fake.
But I would like to see a close up of the mark at the bottom of the badge.

[CtahhR]

From what I can see (or not see) I would lean toward it being fake.

No screwplate?

[desantnik]

From what can be seen I don't like it.

[rocketscientist]

Strange reverse indeed. The ribbon should be mirrored on the reverse but I can't see trace of it. The avers is extremely adherent to the original, I would hardly imagine a faker so good to reproduce it and unable to do the same with the reverse. I tend to think it is just too heavily polished.

[Bill Garvy]

[SIZE="3"]Alleged Honored Railworker in silver (?), serial #40805, which I suspect is a cast copy.

Soliciting the thoughts, perspectives, and opinions of collector colleagues. . .[/SIZE]

[desantnik]

Agreed. The badge itself does not look die struck while the nut also looks cast and too thin to be original. The nut's "repair" also looks too new to be contemporary.

[CtahhR]

Although these Ministerial awards weren't always up to the standards of the state mint the locomotive on this fake is more a blur than anything else. I also don't have a clue what is going on in the inside of that screwplate.

Unfortunately one for the bad pile (we all have one!).