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    Quality Hardware Flipper - Fake?

    I got this flipper with some other items. I am not an expert and would appreciate some of you knowledgeable people to take a look. I hope the pictures are good enough for you to see the lettering. Maybe I ought to next buy a better camera instead of carbine parts. Nah. Thanks for the help.

    Looking at the pics, I'll try to get some better ones up.
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    From what I think I can make out from looking at the very bottom....looks to be repro.

    Better pics will help, as you mentioned.

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    It began life as a repro, but with the bogus markings added I think Rangehound's word 'fake' is appropriate.

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    Quote Originally Posted by RangeHound View Post
    I got this flipper with some other items. I am not an expert and would appreciate some of you knowledgeable people to take a look. I hope the pictures are good enough for you to see the lettering. Maybe I ought to next buy a better camera instead of carbine parts. Nah. Thanks for the help.

    Looking at the pics, I'll try to get some better ones up.
    Rangehound,

    The next logical question is "What is the source of your sight?"

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    I don't know the origin as it was in a box of parts I traded for. I fortunately did not pay for it to be original but the lettering is different than most of the repos that I have seen.

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    Quote Originally Posted by RangeHound View Post
    I don't know the origin as it was in a box of parts I traded for. I fortunately did not pay for it to be original but the lettering is different than most of the repos that I have seen.
    There are other characteristics that also identify as fake. Glad you were not out much $$.

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    Has anyone ever seen known genuine flip sights with those two raised "rails" on the bottom?? Every known genuine flip sight I've encountered has had a FLAT bottom, whereas every loose "flipper" from the Modesto Maestro has these parallel ridges at the front and rear edges. Also, the pins on almost every genuine sight I've encountered have rounded ends, not like these: flat or pinched ends like a wire cut off with a pair of ****s.

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