Dave Posted September 7, 2017 Share #26 Posted September 7, 2017 Can the fake engraving styles be posted for reference? Here's a good reference page, from Tom Lane's website: http://purplehearts.net/id8.html I have more photos, but unfortunately cannot post them as they are in people's collections currently. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dave Posted September 7, 2017 Share #27 Posted September 7, 2017 Guys - I hate to disagree but this Purple Heart would have an honored place in my collection Bill If the owner's comfortable with it then that's what counts, in all honesty (really...and not being sarcastic here, I know that could sound like it, but it's hard to convey inflection through the internets!) Photographing as many medals as I did, I'd say I ran into about 2% that were outright fakes. Then, there were about 5% whose style was questionable, but I have yet to confirm that style as a bona-fide official engraving style (and some have been confirmed to have been the work of one specific faker, whose modus operandi and style I learned later in the process...) Still, there are some that, for whatever reason, I can't confirm and aren't comfortable with. When I made my appendix of engraving styles in the book, I only used examples I was 100% comfortable with saying they were real. There were a couple that I wasn't comfortable with so I left them out - erring on the side of caution rather than having something that could be confirmed later as a fake in a published book. (And I won't even start with the post-Vietnam War posthumous Purple Heart engraving minefield! Needless to say, those that have made it into Volume 2 have been screened VERY carefully to make sure they are 100% right.) Dave Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jeffs1130 Posted September 7, 2017 Share #28 Posted September 7, 2017 What did he pay for the medal? I mean if it was $25 who cares if it's real or fake! But I have to side with Dave, the man has 1400+ photo examples and a drawer with fakes! He knows his stuff! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
vernonshattuck Posted September 9, 2017 Share #29 Posted September 9, 2017 Based on my experiences with WW2 engraved purple hearts I too would have concerns on including this heart in my collection. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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