You answered your own question.Seriously ? Why in the world did anybody tool up and make reproduction labels?
This will be abused no doubt to mislead and trick buyers in to thinking they are getting an original box with the gun they just paid top dollar for. The intentions may be good, but I see greedy scamers aging reproduction boxes and adding repro labels to squeeze out an additional $ 400 from the unsuspecting collector...
Seriously ? Why in the world did anybody tool up and make reproduction labels?
Lewis
Seriously ? Why in the world did anybody tool up and make reproduction labels?
This will be abused no doubt to mislead and trick buyers in to thinking they are getting an original box with the gun they just paid top dollar for. The intentions may be good, but I see greedy scamers aging reproduction boxes and adding repro labels to squeeze out an additional $ 400 from the unsuspecting collector.
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Lewis
Ha!!! I see you beat me to the draw re: Colts.The fake boxes have been an issue with the Colt collectors for several years now. There's an individual from Sparta TN that has been doing it on a couple of major auction sights. He even has pre-1900 SAA boxes he will sell you for $750. He's gotten much better at faking them too, it's become difficult to tell them from real boxes in some cases.
Well, here's the other side of the coin: I had a question about my warranty-refinished Colt electroless DS (refinished by Colt due to failure of the early experimental electroless finish) so I went to the Colt forum and posted my question along with a photo of the original box label for authenticity. I got zero responses after well over 100 views.
Apparently the Colt collecting scene is riddled beyond the imagination with frauds, fakes, misrepresentations. I guess the members there figured that this was just another attempt by someone to pass off a 3rd party refinished Colt for a Colt refinished Colt.
Seems like every fifth post over there is about frauds, fakes and misrepresentations.I guess I should have expected the cold shoulder.
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let he who is without sin, cast the first stone, I been selling boxes from out of the trash, and gun shows, since the 1960s, most all of them pretty darn cheap, and I can tell you MOST of the collectors been buying them all these years,,,if NO ONE wanted or needed them, they would NOT sell, now days I could NOT even buy one for twice the money I used to get for them.Nothing wrong with putting YOUR gun into a "proper vintage" package,,,,,,,,,now YOU want to try and scam or perpetrate a fraud on to someone else, then shame on YOU.................
This points out a real problem. Trying to be helpful, many experts here will describe in detail the tell-tale signs of a fake. Unfortunately, unscrupulous individuals can access this information as easily as anyone else.There probably aren't that many people that can tell real from fake over on the Colt forum, and some of those that can need to see the boxes in person. They also don't want to give up what they look for in a fake box because they know the forger from Sparta monitors the forum.
+1. BTW, how many of us put period correct (but not numbered to the gun) grips on a gun we acquire with goodyears? Oh yeah, the SAT in my pre 29 box is not the one that came with it originally. Nor is the mop. Guess I'm a forger.