A few chinese medals!

[Paul V]

fakes

Yes small japanese medal is good! Was looking at how close design is to
large chinese medal!

[hc8mm]

I remember they came out less than a year ago. Many people were fooled. But these days, I don't see any bids on these. Their starting bid was usally at $99, now it has been lowered to around $30-50. And, what is scary now, they come with serial numbers!!

I know one guy who buys these and sells them as real. He got one auction with the typical fantasy medals (with ribbons from other medals) and these orders, put on the auction from a Flying Tiger member reunion story and sold the lot for $1k+. See his past auctions for other scams and note that he also buys these from Chinese sellers.

http://cgi.ebay.com/Flying-Tigers-CN...mZ220578455984

...oh and this one, he sells modern Taiwan medals, and a fake Chinese for $521!!! Seems if it is a US seller, people will believe him than a Chinese seller.
http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll...m=220600447104

[Paul V]

chinese fakes

Here are 2 more to look at!

[Paul V]

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pic front

[Paul V]

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back of

[Paul V]

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front of another one

[Paul V]

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back of this medal shown

[Paul V]

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here is 2 more!

[Paul V]

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close up1

[Paul V]

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close up2

[Paul V]

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2nd medal close up

[Paul V]

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2nd medal close up back

[wewelsburg]

aRE THERE REAL cHINESE MEDALS THESE EMULATE?

[Tim B.]

Japanese small medal

Now was the large medal chinese copied from this design?

The Japanese Medal, is actually an Order of the Golden Kite 5th Class and the fake Chinese medal is a very poor attempt at copying it.

The Order of the Auspicious Clouds looks good IMO.
Tim

[Paul V]

fakes

I was told warloeds also had things made!

But here is some more to show!