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* Between the two World Wars, due to regulations on arms exports, China started developed a large industry of cloning foreign firearms for domestic use. While several were very solid copies made in factories, there were lots of guns made by hand by decent to good machinists who didn't really understand how guns worked. This leads to very early examples of Chinese Shoddy Knockoff Products like [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4HNaB7l2GQk a pistol with a bayonet lug], [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=byEIP9mRAwA markings from multiple different companies] or [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VtFPgu82f1c non-working sights].
* Swords marked "ulfberht" were known for exceptionally high quality during the 9th to 11th century. Naturally several fakes arose (particularly after the high quality materials needed for them dried up), and chemical testing of archeological artifacts shows many examples have much lower quality steel than authentic examples and often had incorrect markings. This trope is thus [[Older Than Print]].
* Prior to the Spanish Civil War, Spain didn't really recognize foreign patents. Cue production of blatant and, generally, low quality copies of goods protected by foreign patents.
* Khyber Pass, which links the border of Afghanistan and Pakistan, has a lot of gunsmiths. Some of these smiths are more talented than others. As foreign soldiers who are paid enough to make the local currency look like [[Funny Money]] have recently been active in the area and (Supposed) antique firearms are fairly easy to import into their home countries, several of these gunsmiths have made fake antique guns for sale to these soldiers. Some of these are very poorly made, unsafe to fire and won't fool anyone (yet will still be bought because such item are an interesting souvenir in their own right) but others are genuinely high quality replicas even an expert can't tell the illegitimacy of easily.
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