it is pretty obvious he buys his "best" stuff and sincerely thought he was getting authentic items....when the folks here started to say "uhhhhhhh, that is most unusual, please give us more info"....he got defensive, never having heard before that his priceless collection was a bunch of internet re-pros. He has sunk A LOT of bucks into stuff that any number of us here could have made for him at a fraction of the cost. We have all been taken some time in our lives in one way or another but most of us learn from it, shake our heads and move on.