Fossil-collecting, unlike fossil-hunting, is an unregulated free-for-all, and fakes abound.
But it also adds noise, and inaccuracy, and fakes.
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Imagine the Omar Hamouis and Caterina Fakes that could have been if they just had the flexibility to leave their day job and take a chance.
But the best part is how Sciarra, like some pro wrestler, denies the whole thing and then fakes outrage the refs would dare accuse him of something so silly.
Many of the goods find their way into Europe and are knowingly bought as fakes by shoppers at markets and from street vendors.
People who secretly feel like fakes and are feeling either gleeful or ashamed about it.
Manning was getting the Packers to bite on his pump fakes and coolly kept pace with Rodgers.
While market-diluting reprints might be merely an annoyance for collectors and dealers, fakes are a real problem.
But it seems quietly confident that the pictures will turn out to be fakes and one of its principal tormentors in the press will turn out to have skewered itself.
And we went to the stadium gate, where the guy who scanned our bar codes told us we had to go to Will Call, and the lady at Will Call took one look at our tickets and pronounced them fakes.
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How about swiping gulls' eggs from nests and replacing them with fakes, so they never hatch?
It polices its site, takes down sales that appear to be fakes, and blocks offending sellers.
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The risks of such investments are high: Prices fluctuate, stars fade, fakes are common and liquidity is somewhere between low and nonexistent.
Their response contradicts the popular notion that fakes inhibit innovation and investment.
Chinese tourists are willing to put up with hard beds and cold noodles for a reason: they are champion shoppers who prefer to concentrate their spending on luxury branded goods, which are cheaper than back home and guaranteed not to be fakes.
And so that is this fake culture which we have in Europe and probably also here, where people buy fakes.
Look closely at items, and there will be signs they're fakes.
Though dozens of the fakes have been detected by curators, and more were revealed by Hebborn himself in his notoriously mischievous 1991 autobiography, Drawn to Trouble, the vast majority remain in circulation under names other than his own.
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He exposed dozens of other fakes in public collections, including the Piranesi and the Brueghel.
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His fakes were also on sale in Majorca, and much in demand by tourists.
Buying fakes is more socially acceptable than ever before and consumer demand has fuelled the growth of counterfeiting from something like a cottage industry to a global business.
In the film, the young man fakes a picture of himself at Machu Picchu and pretends to like the same band as a girl in order to get her to like him.
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Knowledge of fakes has been limited to date, according to Mr Weigelt, and the new organisation will provide a means to exchange information.
The city also acts as a clearing house for antiques and curios from all over Africa and you will find some amazing pieces here - as well as plenty of fakes!
It is made of gold-plated silver, but the jewels were fakes, with the stones around the bottom rim made from coloured glass and a foil backing.
Still, it was a peculiar strategy, paradoxical in its own right, to argue that historical context was irrelevant by enticing historians to identify his fakes as authentic products of the past, ascribing to them specific names and dates.
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To combat this giant gray market--where fakes can easily snake their way into the drug supply--Bond and other drug company executives are hoping to turn to a new technology, called radio frequency identification, or RFID, which pairs a tiny microchip with a small antenna.
On the recommendation of several British fashion editors, I visited Vestiaire Collective, the Paris-based resale (translation: the clothes are preowned) site that launched in the U.K. last spring and now ships to the U.S. The selection is thoroughly high-end (celebrities Sophie Dahl and Rachel Weisz have donated goods), and each piece is vetted by in-house specialists who are trained to weed out fakes.
Together, Dowling and his team of assistants determine whether their paintings, antiques or collectibles are valuable treasures or cheap fakes.
Even the untrained eye can discern the fakes' inferiority compared with watches built by British masters like Thomas Tompion, George Graham, and Thomas Mudge.
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