Re: Bull-loney
As usual, an unknown "source" is hardly believable if one simply takes a look at some of the things on E bay. I am a student and I do not know as much as I like but I am fairly familiar with the German P08 holster. With the ability to observe many close up photos of these holsters coming from european countries it is fairly obvious that this item in particular is somewhat hard to fake. Fakes stand out like a wort on your Aunts nose. I will admit to buying an Imperial Navy 6" holster from a gentleman from the Netherlands and it turned out to be as phony as a Clinton three dollar bill. It was actually sent to me without any kind of payment on my part for my inspection and approval or rejection. This involved an E bay bid of over one thousand dollars. It was very difficult in this instance to determine aunthenticity by photos but with the help of noted German Navy expert Tom Armstrong and another Police and Navy expert Derek Seltzer,I was able to sort out the various spurious markings and reject this horrible travesty of the holster makers art. This was several years ago and before I was as knowlegable as I am today. Experience is a great teacher.But it is difficult to say about fakes as I am not knowledgeble in fields other than holsters. I know it is hard to fake wear and age on holsters as I have tried it. Anyone else have evidence of a flood of fakes coming out of Europe? Actually there are plenty of fakes flooding us here in the U.S. from our own homegrown fakemeisters. Jerry
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