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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Bronwen, post: 3043432, member: 5833&quot;]Genuine artifacts from where?&nbsp; They look fake to me.&nbsp; I bought a ring in an English auction house auction, gambling from the photos provided that it was Medieval.&nbsp; Final price wasn&#039;t spectacular (evidently other bidders knew better) so loss was not too great, but when received I knew immediately it was fake &amp; would have known before bidding if a photo of the underside had been provided.&nbsp; Notice the similarity to your bird intaglio:</p><p><br /></p><p>[ATTACH=full]290832[/ATTACH]</p><p>[ATTACH=full]290833[/ATTACH]</p><p><br /></p><p>Finding others put the last nail in the coffin:</p><p><br /></p><p>[ATTACH=full]290834[/ATTACH] </p><p>[ATTACH=full]290835[/ATTACH] </p><p><br /></p><p>There have been eBay listings for purportedly ancient Roman intaglio jewellery coming out of, I think, Thailand, or some other place you would not expect to be flush with Roman antiquities.&nbsp; Fakes are also being produced on a large scale in some eastern European countries.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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