Be warned, the Antique Auctions Support Network run by Andrey Kiselev and Svetlana Kalmykova is a dodgy place to buy swords (or anything else) from, or to use as buyer's agents at auction.
Andrey Kiselev also operates on eBay as history_relics and calls himself "Andrew". History relics are well known for fraudulently selling reproduction swords and other militaria as authentic. He tries to hide behind a PO Box at Mail Boxes Etc in St. Albans (Mail Boxes Etc do not call their PO Boxes by that name, they call them "Offices"). You can read all about Andrey's antics on a site called vBay me, here; History Relics (if you have been cheated by these people you can find their home address and phone numbers here).
Andrey is clever, he mixes reproductions in with authentic items, so buyers will see something they know to be authentic and then presume everything he sells is authentic. Actually Andrey is a very bad authentic antique buyer at auction; he pays well over what he should and you should not appoint him as a buyer's agent for this very reason. I have taken a screen grab of one item for sale on his Antique Auctions Support Network site which is clearly a reproduction; I can not show it here because it is Copyright protected, but I can send anyone who emails me a copy of it.
Andrey Kiselev and Svetlana Kalmykova AKA the Antique Auctions Support Network need to rip people off because they make so little money conducting honest, authentic business. Therefore you should think thrice about trusting your money on their goods or services. They sell fakes and they likely swindle customers who use them as buyer's agents equally.
Wednesday, July 29, 2009
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