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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;medoraman, post: 2243139, member: 26302&quot;]Do you have Joe Cribb&#039;s book on sycee? Its the standard for the field.</p><p><br /></p><p>Personally I would only trust respected dealers well known to US collectors. About 99% of these from China are fakes, and they make extremely convincing ones. That is the reason I do not own any, since I cannot assure myself of authenticity. I just bought a Vietnamese 10 dong bar that was from the estate of a well known US dealer and documented in his inventory in the 1970&#039;s.</p><p><br /></p><p>I am not claiming to be an expert in these, and others here might be, but the bottom two especially bother me. The darkness looks like painted fake patina, not naturally occurring toning. The shen of the characters of all three do not look right to me either. However, I defer to others here who might be more knowledgable on these than myself. I have, though, held in hand a couple of dozen authentic pieces. Maybe Bill, ([USER=9204]@Ardatirion[/USER] ) has more knowledge of these.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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