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Originally Posted by Chris Shaw
I'm totally with Ken on this - plus, look at the label. There's no way that hasn't been pasted in recently!
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Yes, I agree on the label as those burn marks were put there to age what looks like a label taken out of a book. I tried this recently for fun and copied a label from a book and then on to brown paper from a paper bag and then aged it. To almost any eye, my label from the 1700s looks original. Fake and aged labels are very common in this business. Most old instruments do not have their original labels anymore that I have seen. We usually have to ID a bass from the actual bass itself and others like it as labels are no longer trusted anymore.