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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;RittenhouseCU, post: 3312023, member: 100546&quot;]There are very few modern electrotype copies.&nbsp; I’ve only seen, perhaps, a dozen or so. Once you know what 19th century pieces look like, they’re rather obvious.&nbsp; It’s really tough to fake real age.&nbsp; The other thing that gives it away is if the electro is a copy of a famous piece.&nbsp; Those have been locked in known collections for many decades.</p><p><br /></p><p>Getting a copy of a rare piece was only one reason for the electrotype craze of 1840 to 1885.&nbsp; The other reason was for display pieces.&nbsp; Imagine you are Roper, Mickey, Parmelee, Cohen, Garrett.&nbsp; Do you really wanna take your rare whatever to show at coin club and have it “walk” or dropped? Of course not.&nbsp; So, many prominent collectors had electrotype copies made for “show and tell.”</p><p><br /></p><p>For those interested in the history, production methods, and tale of the 19th century electro’s, my article will be published in the upcoming PennyWise.</p><p><br /></p><p>I’ll also be posting some really neat pieces in the future. The really good pieces have fooled the TPG’s on a few occasions.&nbsp; I have some that are very dangerous and a friend pointed out a silver Immune Columbia that, as of the ANA convention, was still in a major TPG slab.&nbsp; </p><p><br /></p><p>There was only one tell-tale “pop” in the drapery.&nbsp; As soon as he showed it, my comment was, “Oooh, that’s not right.”&nbsp; He then showed me other close-ups with nicks and marks that were exact matches to another known genuine piece.&nbsp; </p><p><br /></p><p>That was probably a piece by the gang I call “The Fabulous Philadelphia Fabricators” (how’s that for some alliteration), which included Lyman Low,&nbsp; the Chapmans, J.N.T. Levick, W. Elliot Woodward and probably Idler and Haseltine.&nbsp; They got busted by the US Secret Service in 1885.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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