Off with his head....well not really.

[Dat Nguyen]

Hello to ALL,

At one time, I though that any Order of the Star with a soldered on ring at the top was fake... and I have seen some pretty bad fakes. Well I saw a vendor selling several Order of the Stars, 2nd cl, type 2 with missing rings. Someone has cut the top rings off all these orders. Don't know why, but my reasoning is that they must have thought that these were made of silver and wanted these melted down; then realized that these orders were made of silver plated brass(?). I included an uncut order next to it for your trained eyes to look at.

Also a photo of three fake orders with soldered on rings. These were cast made orders with poor details on the obverse side.

Man, it is getting tough to collect Afghan stuff too.

Dat

[desantnik]

Thanks for updates from the field.