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260670 Don Schwartz <dks@t...> 2016‑12‑10 Re: early stanley boxes
On 2016-12-09 9:14 AM, Thomas Conroy via OldTools wrote:
> I might put a new label on a box (not a tool) but I wouldn't want it to be a
perfect undetectable match for the original. That is skating a little to close
to faking for my taste.

I would go further and say that if you make a reproduction, you should 
mark it as such in some clear, readily detectible and indelible way in 
order to avoid facilitating its use by some unscrupulous individual to 
perpetrate a fraud. Sooner or later those items will fall into the hands 
of someone with no ethics or morals, only to be sold off to a trusting 
enthusiast. It happens in fine art & antiques circles all the time.

FWIW
Don

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