02-26-2004, 08:10 PM
Hi gentlemen, I 'm going to freeze the ambiance, but I'd like to see a close picture of the badge. The scan gives it darker than normal: in fact, I've a fake of this estionian badge, very nice quality fake, and there are 2 main tips about this: red enamel, too dark, carmine red instead of beautiful crimsom red; still about the enamel, it hasn't been polished mecanicaly by the mint, it forms like waves at the joining of metal parts. On a genuine, the enamels are perfectly flat, like a mirror.
The gold plating on the reverse is often patined on genuine pieces, on my fake, it is too preserved. I just begun to be experimented at the time I bought it, and I had a warning bell...I have'nt been paranoid enough this time.
I don't buy anything coming from Baltic states, except from reputable dealers engaging their knowledge...
The gold plating on the reverse is often patined on genuine pieces, on my fake, it is too preserved. I just begun to be experimented at the time I bought it, and I had a warning bell...I have'nt been paranoid enough this time.
I don't buy anything coming from Baltic states, except from reputable dealers engaging their knowledge...
Sebastien
"a spectre haunts Europe, the spectre of communism"
(a well-known german bearbed)
"a spectre haunts Europe, the spectre of communism"
(a well-known german bearbed)
