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Friend of mine that does early restorations turned me on to them. Not cheap for the custome work from scratch, he told me some are 2k!

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Sublime one said:
The last reenactment I went to the majority of the participants were rocking modern recreations of vintage equipment and clothing. With few exceptions most all the firearms were modern replicas. A lot of the “camp” goods were vintage tho. Pretty sure the horses were all modern as well! @WV64Signet likely has a much more better idea as he has been down that road. It always looked like a black hole for money to me so you know I decided to restore Mopars instead. Hah!
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Civil War?? I was thinking the WW1 and WW2 reenactors who I don't really know much about.
For the earlier stuff, yea I think everyone has gone to reproductions for use in the field.
Apparently, for a while in the late 1960s and early 70s some CW era stuff was still available fairly cheap.

With Rev War, every now and then at an event we'ld host, someone would have a few original items - generally small things - to display or show visitors.
 
Mattax said:
Funny how different collecting and restoring is viewed in different fields.
Most classic car guys are fine with replacement parts or reproductions.
With the collectable mil-surp stuff, most want NOS, although I think reenactors may interested in copies.
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Again compairing to stamps... There are some very talented 'stamp restorers'. If done as preservation, museum display etc, can be a good thing. If they find there way on the market pretending to be originals, its a whole different thing. Most notorious, a guy by the name of Jean de Sperati fooled many experts. Story is he got ripped off buying from a reputable dealer who thought his stuff was genuine. Another dealer said it wasn't... So Jean set out to prove he could fool the experts. He never actually tried to make money off them himself. Made many fakes that are now considered collectible in their own right.
 
halifaxhops said:
Another ood guy is Jack from Central Jersey Motor parts. Has a few warehoses of NOS mopar and some ford. Deal with him alot both ways. I have cleaned up a few distributors that were nos but not stored well for him. He has also turned me on to NORS parts in bulk from guys he knows.
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I wonder if he's the same Jack that was working out of his garage for a while. Decent guy but lost contact.
 
They do have alt of stuf Mopar just have to go through the pages. Vin plates, Body plates, fender tags. But I like them have to show the title before they do it.
 
Mattax said:
I wonder if he's the same Jack that was working out of his garage for a while. Decent guy but lost contact.
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Doubt it he bought out a guy in Englishtown, NJ right next to the track, forgot the name. he is Jack Kozack. Has a massive amount of brake springs. Suprised mobile parts doesnt want them. Lot deal. probably a few pallets worth!
 
zkx14 said:
Again compairing to stamps... There are some very talented 'stamp restorers'. If done as preservation, museum display etc, can be a good thing. If they find there way on the market pretending to be originals, its a whole different thing. Most notorious, a guy by the name of Jean de Sperati fooled many experts. Story is he got ripped off buying from a reputable dealer who thought his stuff was genuine. Another dealer said it wasn't... So Jean set out to prove he could fool the experts. He never actually tried to make money off them himself. Made many fakes that are now considered collectible in their own right.
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In a way thats a pretty cool story.
Did he actually make replica engravings and print them?
 
Mattax said:
Civil War?? I was thinking the WW1 and WW2 reenactors who I don't really know much about.
For the earlier stuff, yea I think everyone has gone to reproductions for use in the field.
Apparently, for a while in the late 1960s and early 70s some CW era stuff was still available fairly cheap.

With Rev War, every now and then at an event we'ld host, someone would have a few original items - generally small things - to display or show visitors.
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Yep it was CW battle of Prairie Grove. National historic battleground and park. We have two of them right here. Prairie Grove and Pea Ridge. Then several across the line in Mo within a few hours. Our area was torn apart with loyalty to both sides during the war. I hope our Country never recreates the event.
 
halifaxhops said:
Doubt it he bought out a guy in Englishtown, NJ right next to the track, forgot the name. he is Jack Kozack.
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Maybe. Thats the location of the Jack I bought reverse light switch thingy from. He told me his brother? was doing the bigger business called Jack's. 20 years ago now. Someplace I have his phone and home address.
 
I have to say once you get to know a subject it is fairly easy to find out fakes.
 
Mattax said:
Maybe. Thats the location of the Jack I bought reverse light switch thingy from. He told me his brother? was doing the bigger business called Jack's. 20 years ago now. Someplace I have his phone and home address.
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I have it if needed we talk evey few weeks. One of my go to guys for weird NOS parts

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Sublime one said:
Yep it was CW battle of Prairie Grove. National historic battleground and park. We have two of them right here. Prairie Grove and Pea Ridge. Then several across the line in Mo within a few hours. Our area was torn apart with loyalty to both sides during the war. I hope our Country never recreates the event.
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I may have mentioned this. Morristown NHP was one of the first national Parks to get serious about living history as a way to conect visitors with the park's story. One of the stories in the park (ranger lore) was that an original musket out of the collection was used for the program. Turns out to be true. paper work and photos show an original Charleville was used in the early 1970s until they could get a reproduction musket. Kindof cool actually.
 
halifaxhops said:
I have to say once you get to know a subject it is fairly easy to find out fakes.
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Yea I supopose. You got put your time in and sometimes some cash in the process. The carbines and accessories are difficult because so many different contractors and subcontractors plus drawing revisions over time.
 
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