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From Renate

See how often this design was listed on ebay this month and last month:

http://cgi.ebay.co.uk/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&item=330214609156

http://cgi.ebay.co.uk/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&item=290203845870

http://cgi.ebay.co.uk/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&item=170191036672

http://cgi.ebay.co.uk/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&item=360020039341

http://cgi.ebay.co.uk/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&item=330207467324

http://cgi.ebay.co.uk/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&item=330216755459

http://cgi.ebay.co.uk/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&item=310014070332

http://cgi.ebay.co.uk/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&item=300183328282

Described variously as "Roman", "Celtic", "Frankish",

"Gothic", Medieval and Ostragoth and dating from 1st to 6th century! 

Might be better described as Balkans and dating to the 21st century!

The items and who unfortunately bought them!

330207467324;sirhoward2002;VERY NICE BRONZE ROMAN BROOCH.;03.02.2008 21:16:25;petebeatagogo;10,19;£

360020039341;karakalas;LOVELY CELTIC BRONZE FIBULA;08.02.2008 05:00:00;;52;US$

170191036672;fossi-13;Orig. Fibel der Franken, Alamannen, Merowingerzeit

RAR!;10.02.2008 19:45:00;kohlberg1;41,99;€

290203845870;vergina**;GOTHIC BRONZE FIBULA 6th AD;10.02.2008 22:23:49;bernasconip;33;US$

300183328282;empiredanny;ROMAN BRONZE FIBULA BROOCH 1st-4th Century A.D.

FB7;27.02.2008 23:59:37;;;US$

330214609156;sirhoward2002;WONDERFUL BRONZE ROMAN/MEDIEVAL

BROOCH;02.03.2008 21:32:25;kunsthandel-ott;27,05;£

330216755459;ahnenart;!! Bügelfibel der Ostgoten !! VERZIERT !! Germanen

!!;16.03.2008 20:15:00;brutus320;25,61;€

310014070332;www_cfancients_com;Celtic Ancient European Brooch Fibula intricate 300 BC;10.04.2008 03:19:52;;;US$

Interesting that they come from the factory without pins.

Sooner or later they wil make some with pins!

4th April 08

Well, only one certain way to prove this.

I arranged to buy the example shown above on the right and another from an eBay seller in Canada. The other is from a voluminous seller of fakes in the UK.

The pictures  tell all you need to know.

Both have artificial "patinas" of different colour.

It does not come off with acetone or alcohol.

It is chemically induced.

These two are fromthe same mould.

I'm willing to believe that the seller in Canada did not know that this is a fake but the seller in the UK must surely know.

27th July '10.

This page was created over 5 years ago.

An eBay seller who was thrown off ebay for some while for selling fakes but then came back has more recently started listing such as this.....

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....and such as which I went to some lengths to convince him were actually fakes but received  olnly increasingly abusive emails in return.

He now lists his things, the very same things he sold many hundreds of at enormous profit as genuine antiquities like this:

I've been buying Roman artifacts on eBay since I started 10 1/2 years ago. Many were from the Balkans. Many came with COAs. Six years ago I started importing "unsorted" 10 kilo lots from Bulgaria. At first I was impressed with the quality and variety of the items. I was finding things I had never seen on eBay! This went on for about a year. After the fourth shipment I noticed a few exact duplicates of items I already had in my collection. My first discovery was a pair of damaged bronze arrowheads. Both had exactly the same imperfections, indicating they both came from the same mold. I expected a fake to be in great condition. Now I must assume that everything I bought from Bulgaria is a reproduction.

 Do I believe him?

No. I do not.