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From: HenkADSL <[log in to unmask]>
> Conclusion: it's a fake?
> Henk
the thought never occurred to me, Hank, but it is worth considering, i
suppose, in a "Be Comprehensive, Examine All Aspects of Everything, No Matter
How Absurd" sort of way.
certainly "proving the negative" --that it is *not* a fake-- would strain even
my much-vaunted Powers of Persuasion.
first, i would prefer "pastiche" to "fake" --i.e., while it may be a "fake" of
a late 14th c. reliquary box, it seems to be made up (in part, at least) of
genuine late 14th c. artifacts.
unless you are of the opinion that all those badges & the roundels are also
19th c.(??) "fakes."
i would argue against that proposition, on the grounds of "style" --and it is
damnéd near as difficult to convincingly "fake" a breathtakingly mediocre
style as it is to convincingly "fake" a breathtakingly Fine one.
i suggest "19th c." because i can't think of any other period (save our own
benighted Epoch, but the thing has been known since sometime around the middle
of the 19th c.) when it *could* have been "faked," and, while the 19th c. was
certainly notorious for its "fakes," most of those are later in the century
and fakes of such pieces of enduring mediocrity (for which there was surely no
ready or substantial market at the time) are, i believe, "rare." (as in:
Quick! Name Five!!)
having said that, making the pewter casts, the nails and other misc.
metalwork, and the wood would not be all that difficult, i suppose.
any respectable SCA craftsman could surely whip one out, with only a few
weeks' labor.
the question remains: Why?
to sell to a museum in Tournai at an SCA conference?
Perhaps.
but that would be an Anachronism, wouldn't it?
c
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