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(09-03-2016, 06:25 PM)Celtic505 Wrote: I spotted this while surfing the web the other day https://www.pinterest.com/pin/440015826065772417/ and have never seen this before. It seems fake but if real I'm guessing it's from the early Republic/Samnite era. It is from the Royal Ontario Museum in Toronto. Does anybody know anything about this helmet or the scale cuirass?
I believe that the museum believes they are at the very least of dubious ancestry....
https://www.rom.on.ca/en/blog/fact-false...ek-objects
They do apparantly have some genuine pieces from Dura though...
Ivor
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Thanks, I tried looking for any info but came up short. That explains my suspicions that they were fakes!!!
Dennis Flynn