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Posted By: Rhys

I am sorry to be the bearer of bad news, but these are fake. At least the 10-15 I have seen in the last 2 years, including the one I bought on ebay in July of 2005 are. It looked great to the naked eye and even after I received it in the mail I thought it was real. The work on it is so well done, especiallly the easels on the back, that it seems like it would be difficult to ever fake something like that. It was also shown to several other hobby experts as well (Including folks at Mastronet) who all came to the same conclusion, beautiful and well done counterfeit item. Like I said above as well, I have owned one (the first one I ever saw on ebay) and have seen at least another 10 like it since then. Of course there might be a real one out there, I would not take any chances on these given my past experience. To this day it is the ONLY fake item I could not spot on ebay and fell trap to.

Rhys