Hi,
Well, from my point of view it is more important to know the originals as the reproductions. Originals do not change, reproduction do. So, I did not write anything about copies. Concerning the national trade competition, there are not really good repros in the market.
And nothing in life is for free, even death is not. It costs life.
Kr Markus
Well, you have been allowed to do free advertising for your
book on this forum without paying a cent to become a member, you have allowed yourself a few questions and recieved answers as well, and,
so far at least, you have contributed nothing at all here, so I for one do not appreciate your reply.
I have also written a few books myself, and been willing to help anyone who has questions or seeks further information. I have never charged anyone anything and never simply said:
Refer to my book for the info you want. In fact I will go one further, I have been producing detailed videos that cost an extreme amount of time and money to produce, all for free, for a few years as well.
Not only that, but all the articles I have written for collectors magazines,
were for free. All the articles written on my site and forum,
are for free.
"
Nothing is for free" is about the most pathetic excuse I have heard so far, especially from a non-contributing member.
I have only ever heard this kind of crap from people like Christopher Ailsby before, and when I took his advice and bought his book,
in which he promised me more information as you have, I found the opposite - nothing!
You are also, again, dodging my question. If it is more important for you to know the originals, then you can surely share a few pointers on what you use to judge the originals, no?
When you (or anyone for that matter) simply says "
You thought they were good, or
you think this or that is good."
what are you judging?
Answering simply questions like this, is helpful to other collectors. People who act as if there is some special knowledge or info that they cannot share with other like-minded collectors,
I have found at least, are usually those with the least amount of knowledge! I do hope you will prove me wrong, and maybe even start earning your advertisment space on this forum, which is,
dedicated to helping collectors.
Creating a book is a lot of work, time and it costs a lot of money, with the risk that nobody want it.
But back to the topic. Why do you think the two badges are fakes?
Nonsense!
This is no excuse. I paid the printing costs even for the 2013
The Party Badge book, an amount upfront of five figures! And have self-financed every book i wrote since that.
And yet I have been willing to help for free ever since it was released. And help for free with anything pertaining to any other book.
And no, not back to why anyone thinks they are fake,
back to the innitial question: What are
you judging? Why do you say the two awards sold on eMedals are good? because you did say that, so it would be nice for you to explain why.
It should not be hard to do this, seeing as you have just written -
and researched I guess - a book about them.