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Message:: [QUOTE="2manybooks, post: 12339519, member: 8267"]With objects made before mass production, the assemblage of parts with different origins might be called a "marriage" or "pastiche", with the implication that the resulting piece would not be considered genuine. But in this instance, the object is composed of parts that were manufactured to be identical and interchangeable. It is, in a sense, a restoration - reuniting parts with the same origin that were intended to be an assemblage. I like evelyb's framing it as "New, Old Stock". The only problematic possibility that I can see is if such an assemblage was being represented as an association piece - having been owned or used by some important individual. That would make it a deceptive fake.[/QUOTE]