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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;all_fakes, post: 345977, member: 55&quot;]Yes....I used &quot;seems&quot; partly because I didn&#039;t want to do any actual counting.&nbsp;&nbsp; But then this morning I did some counting in the Canadian native/aboriginal category, new today. Of about 30 wood items, 11 were fake.&nbsp;&nbsp; I included several cast items misidentified as carved wood, and one possibly genuine item that had been &quot;signed&quot; by a known Native carver 20 years after his death - not exactly fake but certainly mis-attributed.&nbsp;&nbsp; Like you say, on a day that the mentioned seller started his listings, there would likely be around 30 fakes out of 50 listings for NW Native wood, around a 60% fakery rate.</p><p>&nbsp; &nbsp; But I&#039;m sure that in a great many collectible categories the fakery rate is much less; it is just that in this one area, with which you and I are quite familiar, there are a heck of a lot of fakes - but probably not as many as it seems there are.</p><p>And it is certainly a shame that the general public might get the impression that the rate of fakery is very high throughout the antique industry, as James C. noted.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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