[Jewelry making - Article 00134] - Re: [Orchid] Value of old Roman intaglios?

[Lee]

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A comments on your post.

    1 - Actually, TWO bidders (or, one bidder and a shill) ran up the
    price to over $550. One bidder would have bought it at the opening
    bid. 

    2 - Are you refering to intaglio cut STONES or METAL? I see many of
    both on eBay. 

    3 - The majority of "ancient artifacts" found on eBay are
    reproductions meant to deceive the buyer, many crafted in eastern
    Europe and the middle east. There are many suppliers of these items
    on eBay with spotless feedback, who nevertheless sell fakes EVERY DAY
    to their unsuspecting clients. 

    Here is an example: 

    In Columbus, Ohio, next to the wholesale Merchandise Mart, there
    used to be a wholesaler of Chinese antiques. This dealer had a 20,000
    foot warehouse stuffed with these antiques that retail business reps
    could browse through. The only problem was that they would have 50
    pieces of exactly the same Ming vase, in exactly the same state of
    preservation. Were they authentic? Absolutely not! Were they SOLD as
    authentic? YES! This is the state of eBay today. There are tens of
    thousands of Bulgarians, Romanians, Lebanese, Greeks, etc., etc.,
    that work in the fake antiquities business, pouring forth coins,
    jewelry, pottery, glassware, weapons, whatever you can imagine, using
    the original processes and artificially aging the items so that it
    takes a bonifide expert to tell them from real. Even the experts can
    be fooled many times, because the forgers are constantly coming up
    with new processes to better mimic style and aging of their fakes. 

    Sadly, even if an item has 200 years of proven history, it could
    STILL be a fake, as these fakes have been made for hundreds of years. 

Good luck!

Lee Cornelius
Vegas Jewelers

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