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15th April 06

I have recently returned from Italy where I visited several museums.

I saw many Roman phallic amulets of the types I have been familiar with for very many years.

Also some incredibly elaborate pieces such as these below.

 

 



 

But I saw only two small silver amulets  with wings and these were extremely fine and detailed.

This is to be expected as the Romans considered silver a more "precious" metal than gold in may circumstances.

I saw nothing like the rather crudly made ones shown on the previous page and none like these below.

These all come from the same seller and in my eyes, from the same modern workshop.

I have previously asked the seller who claims long experience of collecting these to give me some references to such pieces in museums or even auction catalogues.

No information as provided.

 







 

One said to be silver, the other said to be gold.

I make no comment!

 

 




 

The patination on bronze amulets does NOT look like these.

 











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27th July '10.

This page was first created nearly five years ago.

The ebay seller of these silly fake phallic amulets, who sold quite literally hundreds of them,  duplicate after duplicate after duplicate now lists his things, the very same things like this:

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I've been buying Roman artifacts on eBay since I started 10 1/2 years ago. Many were from the Balkans. Many came with COAs. Six years ago I started importing "unsorted" 10 kilo lots from Bulgaria. At first I was impressed with the quality and variety of the items. I was finding things I had never seen on eBay! This went on for about a year. After the fourth shipment I noticed a few exact duplicates of items I already had in my collection. My first discovery was a pair of damaged bronze arrowheads. Both had exactly the same imperfections, indicating they both came from the same mold. I expected a fake to be in great condition. Now I must assume that everything I bought from Bulgaria is a reproduction.

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Do I believe him?

Sorry to be ungenerous, but no, I don't.

Years ago I contacted him, and giving him the benefit of the doubt, I told him why these were not real antiquities.

But all I got was increasingly abusive emails back.

He knew perfectly well that what he was selling was fake.

 

 

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