03-07-2011, 06:14 AM
This is one area that I can see both sides of the coin - so to speak. Since I mainly go after my precious KGB and security service badges and stuff, we are talking about 85% Cold War era. All of my WWII and pre-war stuff is mostly for display and historical edification. There are some awards I will probably always have place-holder copies because of prohibitive prices and I'm OK with that. I haven't pursued much of the older stuff with the four-sided suspensions - usually because of price so this has not really been an issue to me before (I have some BMs and CSs with 4-sided suspensions thanks to a great friend, but I probably would never have sought them out at their usual prices. At the same time, I was told by the same friend that one of the suspensions might not be original and I was completely cool with that).
Having said that, if I bought something that was supposed to have a real 4-sided suspension and I paid several hundred dollars for it, I would be fuming mad if any part was not original and this fact not disclosed to me before the purchase (thinking of T1 OGPWs mostly as an example of something I've never wanted to drop that much cash on - but would love to have).
Phillip
Having said that, if I bought something that was supposed to have a real 4-sided suspension and I paid several hundred dollars for it, I would be fuming mad if any part was not original and this fact not disclosed to me before the purchase (thinking of T1 OGPWs mostly as an example of something I've never wanted to drop that much cash on - but would love to have).
Phillip
Phillip
