Dicho--I was talking to an ex-vintage trader, who says he has quit the business because it had become increasingly difficult to recognize the fakes--the time is long past when sound and feel were a giveaway--and there are luthiers around who can crack out instruments that are close enough in sound and look to the classics that age marks and smell are the only sign(except that they tend to be proud enough of their work to want their own name on it)--