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They still apear on eBay with  all sorts of assurances of authenticity!

From Aldo

23rd May 08

Hi Bron,

My contribution to your new section.

This is an obvious fake.

I do not have a record of the final price of the seal, but 4 days before ending, the maximum bid was US$51.-

May 22, 2004

AKKADIAN CYLINDER SEAL DEPICTING PUNK TEENAGERS

Auctioned by artcollexion End time: Dec-22-07 11:25:00 PST

Description:

CYLINDER SEAL  2000 BC. Size 4 cm.

Provenance:  private european collection. Authenticity guaranteed.

Thanks Aldo.

This seller usually sells such as there, so one might not expect him to know about seals.

(Oh, and yes, they are fakes also)

And from the notorious seller youspaul on eBay:

• Authentic Assyrian beautiful cylinder seal estimated 1200 BC 

• Authentic Assyrian cylindrical seal with bored hole for suspension. Brilliant cylinder seal well preserved and well cleaned depicting excellent and extremely clear figures as the photos shows. Please bid with confidence: the safety of your purchase is guaranteed. We ship within the next 5 days after the payment is received.

• all our items are checked by experts, with an unconditional guarantee of authenticity . we only sell authentic items

• certificate of authenticity & provenance is provided from our house upon request.