Hi, Looking at antiquities_and_relics on eBay I really don't think this is Mike Davies. Different material, different photography and very different descriptions.
Brad.

ebay talks the talk but rarely walks the walk. Fraudulent merchandise is their stock in trade. Their bread and butter in the "Other Decorative Collectibles" category. Davies has been reported so many times I ran out of fingers and toes decades ago

I t looks like M Davies has another shop on eBay "antiquities_and_relics" as it is located in "Didcot, United Kingdom". comments please. BTW re my complaint to the ACCC re activities of eBay allowing bluntest fakes to be listed I have just been advised that they are undertaking an investigation into their listing practices.

Impossible to assess from photographs. What provenance was provided? Wouldn't touch anything like this with a ten foot pole without a verifiable paper trail.

Hi There,
I have won this ring at an online auction of a relatively reputable (from what I can tell) house in the UK. Some lots were highly sought-after, but the fact that I was the only bidder for this has sown the seeds of doubt and caused me to wonder about its authenticity...
I'd love to hear your thoughts, any more informed opinions than mine would help me out.

Suggest form letter sent out en masse to all these shyster internet sellers of crapola. Phony everything everywhere, and they don't give a s*** because they get their "cut" regardless. Knickers in a a twist after realizing most everything you've purchased in 2024 doesn't predate 2023? Catadiki, ebay, etc. will give you your money back and inform the crooked merchant to peddle it to someone else. Problem solved as far as they care.

Like Mark Twain said about lies, there are plain lies and there are DAMN lies. In antiquities and jewelry there are fakes and there are DAMN fakes, with these three certainly amongst the latter. Waste not thy holiday money upon such crap from the aforementioned shysters.

Hello to everyone in the forum,

I won 3 bids in Catawiki that I haven't paid yet but I'm worried by everything I read about them possibly being fake...
Could you help me with these doubts ? Thanks in advance

The 1st one, (Eros and Capricorn), is sold by Praetorians-Exclusive Antiquities in Germany, the 2nd by SPQR in the UK, the 3rd (black glass Aphrodites's bust) by Antique Shopping in the Nederlands.

See here:
https://ancientartifakes.net/smf/index.php/topic,1511.0.html

Don't know a wooden nickel from a shekel but problem often encountered with ancient & medieval jewelry is wholesale misattribution and misdating. If something looks like something else, it must be the same or related. Problem is, half the time it ain't. Can scroll through pages of online offerings and find not a single genuine Roman ring dealer advertises as such. Trinkets with fair market value of maybe $50.00 are offered for ten times as much via the Roman, Viking, Knights Templar, extraterrestrial, etc. assignations. Why God created beer & cannabis probably.