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Mattax said

Yea. Seems anything worth something is and always has some sort of copying. The trouble comes when they're passed off as the real thing. Stuff on the website is right in the gray zone for sure. Looks like top quality repairs and reproduction work - really beautiful - works of art. But if someone thinks its the real thing who is doing research of making a copy, or someone sells it claiming its an original....

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Here's very nice collectible with its original Winchester made stock. But somewhere along the line either a collector or reenactor restamped it.
Winchester 6,508,480 - The Carbine Collector's Club - Page 1
Once the owner found out - it drove him crazy and went got another stock. :realcrazy: I'd say that is actuallymore common than not in many collecting circles. Some of us do it here with cars - others couldn't care less.

edit: Great quote from that thread "I don't think it was "faked" on purpose. Re-enactors wanted it to look more real. To them it was an enhancement. To them any old stamp will do."

The Furniture Doctor by a guy named Grotz humorously describes all sorts of ways unscrupulous people aged, "improved", and faked antique furniture. That book is probably 60 years old. Ironicly, nowadays the market for old furniture has dwindled...