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Laserlloyd · 23 October 2009, 08:43 PM

Just like everything else our area of WW1 aviation is not with out it fakes. Some really bad and so obvious they all seems to end up on Ebay and then some that are rather good to even fool our top historians. I think that it thous out there that take the time in recreating some of these items that hurt us the most by passing them on as real.

The number one offender with out a doubt is Rodney Gerrard and his collection of fake documents and fake fabric. He has fooled some of our well known historians for a period of time. The thing about this is the damage is done and from time to time get referred to as some ones research because they read something about it during the time we thought they were real.

It has happened here on this forum that his stuff gets referred to and form time to time pops up every now and then. So for all of Rodney's works of deception I give his the top billing of the biggest offender of passing on fakes.

Lloyd...

23 October 2009, 08:43 PM	#4 (permalink)
Laserlloyd Fokker DR.I Top Ace Join Date: Feb 2002 Location: Indianapolis, IN (USA) Posts: 2,245	Just like everything else our area of WW1 aviation is not with out it fakes. Some really bad and so obvious they all seems to end up on Ebay and then some that are rather good to even fool our top historians. I think that it thous out there that take the time in recreating some of these items that hurt us the most by passing them on as real. The number one offender with out a doubt is Rodney Gerrard and his collection of fake documents and fake fabric. He has fooled some of our well known historians for a period of time. The thing about this is the damage is done and from time to time get referred to as some ones research because they read something about it during the time we thought they were real. It has happened here on this forum that his stuff gets referred to and form time to time pops up every now and then. So for all of Rodney's works of deception I give his the top billing of the biggest offender of passing on fakes. Lloyd... __________________ Fokker Dr.I Photo Web Site At FokkerDr1.com This site is dedicated to document the pictorial history of all 320 Fokker Dr.I's built during World War I and the fighter pilot Manfred Von Richthofen also known as The "Red Baron"