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Mars wrote:Pretty far from the correct price - this one is a fake.

And not even a good one.
Worth 1500... pennies.

F

The seller sold these items already:


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Holmes "prisoners edition" here with lights and shadows:


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Lights: a dice set is present, an extra module is present

Shadows: rulebook is in poor condtions, there is a d10 die which should not be present (is the dice set original?)

Going by what just a Holmes set of dice sold for on fb today, everything else is merely $10 more (albeit this auction still has 10 hours to go, as of my writing).

That's not a bad price on those Grenadier Catalogs, they've been fairly hot lately.

Sir Kill Alot wrote in Interesting Items Currently on eBay:
To the uninitiated, what makes this stand out as a fake?  The loop on the back, the carving on the front?

-SKA

I suspect that quite a few people have been duped by these over the past few years.

This particular one, along with the similar pewter/silver version are the two that have been counterfeited.

Several telltale signs can be typically used to spot a fake belt buckle:

The plastic wrapper.  The newer reproductions typically have this wrapper or a box with a liner.  These can obviously be easily removed.
The loop for this belt buckle was never straight, at least as far as I've seen.  This particular loop example is also a different color and way too clean.
The machine-polished front, with no patina from age.
The rear patina is identical to similar counterfeits.  It has an artificially produced antiquing over the entire surface, which is inconsistent with the front.
The rear post is not entirely correct.  This is something that used to be much worse, but has been improved by the counterfeiters over time, so for the typical person, this might not be obvious.
The manufacturer's stamp and copyright are more washed out than the original.
The general details are washed out and not as pronounced as the original.
There are sometimes manufacturing defects that the originals rarely had, as the quality control was better.  This particular example has one, which you can see, if you look over the photos carefully.

These aren't all of the signs, but some of the more obvious ones.

Unfortunately, because of a deluge of these counterfeits, it's very difficult to trust that any buckles that are listed are authentic.  I would not recommend purchasing a vintage TSR belt buckle, unless it has the provenance to support its authenticity, or it comes from a collector that has an excellent reputation.

Some prior posts on the topic:

Interesting eBay alert! TSR belt buckles
Anyone sell a TSR belt buckle lately?
Another Possible Reproduction TSR Buckle.

dbartman wrote in Interesting Items Currently on eBay:I suspect that quite a few people have been duped by these over the past few years.

This particular one, along with the similar pewter/silver version are the two that have been counterfeited.

Several telltale signs can be typically used to spot a fake belt buckle:

The plastic wrapper.  The newer reproductions typically have this wrapper or a box with a liner.  These can obviously be easily be removed.
The loop for this belt buckle was never straight, at least as far as I've seen.  This particular loop example is also a different color and way too clean.
The machine-polished front, with no patina from age.
The rear patina is identical to similar counterfeits.  It has an artificially produced antiquing over the entire surface, which is inconsistent with the front.
The post is not entirely correct.  This is something that used to be much worse, but has been improved by the counterfeiters over time, so for the typical person, this might not be obvious.
The manufacturer's stamp and copyright are more washed out than the original.
The general details are washed out and not as pronounced as the original.
There are sometimes manufacturing defects that the originals rarely had, as the quality control was better.  This particular example has one, which you can see, if you look over the photos carefully.

These aren't all of the signs, but some of the more obvious ones.

Unfortunately, because of a deluge of these counterfeits, it's very difficult to trust that any that are listed are authentic.  I would not recommend purchasing a vintage TSR belt buckle, unless it has the provenance to support its authenticity, or it comes from a collector that has an excellent reputation.

Some prior posts on the topic:

Interesting eBay alert! TSR belt buckles
Anyone sell a TSR belt buckle lately?
Another Possible Reproduction TSR Buckle.

Thank you, sir.

-SKA

Despite incomplete, this set is interesting for the small black leaflet... Afaik this should be the UK version of "what is d&d" leaflet...


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is this another fake, because of the D shaped latch?  I thought this person was a reputable seller.