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<p>[QUOTE="Shangas, post: 423473, member: 360"]I know this is authentic. It has damage in places that a fake - even a fake with fake damage - wouldn't have. There's dents and chips (small ones, but dents and chips nonetheless, but not big enough to make the telescope unusable or compromise integrity) to lenses and metalwork inside the drawtubes (presumably from when it was disassembled for cleaning). </p><p><br /></p><p>You wouldn't find this on a reproduction or a fake. They wouldn't bother going to that kind of detail.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>
[QUOTE="Shangas, post: 423473, member: 360"]I know this is authentic. It has damage in places that a fake - even a fake with fake damage - wouldn't have. There's dents and chips (small ones, but dents and chips nonetheless, but not big enough to make the telescope unusable or compromise integrity) to lenses and metalwork inside the drawtubes (presumably from when it was disassembled for cleaning). You wouldn't find this on a reproduction or a fake. They wouldn't bother going to that kind of detail.[/QUOTE]
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