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Tiffany "Flower Girl" Musical Automaton Is Fake
By Don Cox

Christian Greinacher wrote in 040419 MMDigest:


>> The movement itself is covered by a thin pasteboard in order to avoid
>> that the dolls robe is pulled into the movement. On this pasteboard is
>> printed "Brooke Bond PG Tip" (Fig. 6).  If anybody could identify by
>> this label a product or the country where this product was produced,
>> please let us know it.  Might be it could give some trace to where
>> that fake was made.


You will find packets of tea bags with that logo in every supermarket
in Britain.  They may also be common in Commonwealth countries; I don't
know.

That doesn't look like a trading card -- just part of a packet.

Regards

Don Cox

 [ See Christian's article and photos at
 [ http://mmd.foxtail.com/Pictures/  -- Robbie



(Message sent Wed, 21 Apr 2004 16:48:19 +0000 , from time zone +0000.)

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