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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;all_fakes, post: 81717, member: 55&quot;]Not intended as a comment on this piece, but I find the subject of fakes and fakery to be endlessly interesting.....note my nickname.</p><p><br /></p><p>In the NW Coast Native areas with which I am most familiar it is common to find hand-carved items in wood and also stone; often thought to be genuine because of the amount of work involved.</p><p>But labor is very cheap in many parts of the world; and it is cost-effective in Indonesia, as one example, to have a huge cottage industry churning out hand-carved wooden masks and hand-carved bone fetishes.&nbsp; By the thousands.</p><p>&nbsp;&nbsp; A resident of Vancouver BC has for years been making hand-carved stone masks in imitation of NW Native styles, so these appear on ebay as genuine old artifacts.</p><p>&nbsp;&nbsp; I&#039;d venture that there is no area of collecting so obscure that it is immune from fakery.&nbsp;&nbsp; I&#039;ve heard there are fake antique Mason jars being made for those who collect them......I&#039;d never have guessed that was profitable.</p><p>&nbsp; &nbsp;&nbsp; And as far as provenance, of course it is common to see ebay listings that appear to assume that those who &quot;traveled extensively in the 30s and 40s&quot; never bought anything after that time, and were never given reproductions as gifts by well-meaning family or friends.</p><p>Not to mention dealers who appear to have bought entire estates consisting only of fakes.</p><p>&nbsp;&nbsp; Just venting, sorry.......[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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