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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;mirana, post: 9745944, member: 79705&quot;]<img src="styles/default/xenforo/clear.png" class="mceSmilieSprite mceSmilie51" alt=":hilarious:" unselectable="on" unselectable="on" /><img src="styles/default/xenforo/clear.png" class="mceSmilieSprite mceSmilie51" alt=":hilarious:" unselectable="on" unselectable="on" /><img src="styles/default/xenforo/clear.png" class="mceSmilieSprite mceSmilie51" alt=":hilarious:" unselectable="on" unselectable="on" /> SOME! GA has filmed more movies than LA in certain years. It has more soundstages than NYC. It has tens of thousands of film crew in ATL alone.</p><p><br /></p><p>Gladiator was filmed over seas, but the crew doesn&#039;t all live in Morocco...you fly people in. And they move. ATL has seen a major influx of film crew since idk 2016 or something. Plus flim crew like film props, so they buy and trade amongst themselves, or prop store. I&#039;ve gotten things for shows I didn&#039;t work on, just because I knew people who did.</p><p><br /></p><p>We work freelance. This guy isn&#039;t getting fired from a movie filmed in 2000. It&#039;s not a hero prop. These were probably gifted and sold loooong ago. </p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p>So, this looks legit to me at a baseline glance. This is not a hero prop, this is a foam sword used by the horde of background actors and stunties. They made hundreds, if not thousands of these. It&#039;s also slightly damaged, so possibly as old as the film and/or used.</p><p><br /></p><p>You do have film fabricators that can make replicas that are the same as the screen used stuff. Afterall, they made the originals. They probably still have the molds. But since hundreds were made, and there&#039;s never any tracking or marking on this kind of prop, no one is going to know so long as it&#039;s crafted in the same way from same materials.</p><p><br /></p><p>Best you can do is look at what prop store has, look at screen shots, and ask again how he specifically got this piece. Ask what kind of piece it is...screen used background prop? Replica from original molds? Etc.</p><p><br /></p><p>And again, COAs are a gimmick to make buyers &quot;feel better.&quot; Anybody can print a piece of paper. The only time they&#039;re useful is if they come from the original studio. Even auction appraisers could be fooled.</p><p><br /></p><p>On prop background swords...I was once on a major tent pole blockbuster where the foam background swords were having to be repainted in-between set-up because the paint kept coming off the foam. Another set where we made idk 40 foam copies of one barely used hero prop. They are cheaply made, break easily, and are meant to be disposable. That&#039;s why they don&#039;t get any official tracking or authentication.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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