Talk of Fakes (or Antiqued newer Basses) came up......

[Ken Smith]

Besides Brinser there are many Labels in the Jalovec books as well as some of the old English Books.

On your Guad./apprentice comment, is this just Turin or all of Italy? I don't think this is true in general. Maybe the industry itself died down a little along with it the desire to apprentice in that field.

On the Label thing once again, many a dealer have taken labels out of instruments and replaced them with either a more famous one or just made a fake more famous one if not just throw a label in it to mark up the price. Our friend Bob B. has seen plenty of 'homeless' labels in his time. In my opinion, short of a disaster, there is very little reason to remove a label from an instrument other than for the purpose of profiteering.