This "Mills Buckle" is re-appearing on an internet auction site. The price has been reduced to $139.99, plus postage.

(I do not know the seller. I don't know if he knows, it is a FAKE).

The 'patina' looks nice, but, it is too perfect, (front and back), and likely by recent 'chemistry'.

The lettering for the manufacturer is not correct. (Font and exact placement of letters is wrong).

The buckle's edges, (that wear with use, handling and age), appear sharp and to have burrs.

These reproduction buckles can be found for around $25 and serve a purpose, when honestly used by re-enactors and shooters.

This kind of fraud is despicable - "antiquing" a reproduction item and trying to pass it off as an original.

Somebody unfortunately is going to get burned!

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