01-03-2006, 05:32 PM
I agree with Nack's comment.
I also wanted to add that I believe that one important (not the only one) reason why the price for COA has increased so much is in fact due to the increased quality of fakes. MacDaniel speaks about this on his new site and will even refuse to authenticate Order for Service to Motherland 1st and 2nd class... and I am sure the list will slowly expand with time.
The more the quality of fakes will increase, the more difficult it will become to provide authentication and the bigger risk it will be for the expert.
On the collectors' side, this increasing quality of fakes will also have a devastating impact. What will justify spending thousands of dollars on an item which can not even be authenticated? To me, this item would not worth spending more than few dollars just because of this and would be considered a nice copy nothing more.
I also wanted to add that I believe that one important (not the only one) reason why the price for COA has increased so much is in fact due to the increased quality of fakes. MacDaniel speaks about this on his new site and will even refuse to authenticate Order for Service to Motherland 1st and 2nd class... and I am sure the list will slowly expand with time.
The more the quality of fakes will increase, the more difficult it will become to provide authentication and the bigger risk it will be for the expert.
On the collectors' side, this increasing quality of fakes will also have a devastating impact. What will justify spending thousands of dollars on an item which can not even be authenticated? To me, this item would not worth spending more than few dollars just because of this and would be considered a nice copy nothing more.
