Friday, 6 August 2010

Reproduction Metal Shoulder Titles

With the prices currently being fetched for British Army Metal Shoulder Titles it is perhaps little wonder that an increasing number of 'reproduction' titles are appearing. I despair day by day that the fakers have moved in. Not a new phenomenon, even before Ray Westlakes excellent work appeared in the early 1980's, I can remember being offered (and sad to say obtaining)such unworthy specimens as T/RFA/R.W.KENT and T/RFA/WELCH. In some cases original dies are used, and most of the TYNESIDE/SCOTTISH offerings fall into this category from a rash of restrikes in the 1980's, and more recently the HMRR HUSSARS/DRAGOONS

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