In July 2017 Ebay seller jbeerd from Moscow in Russia was trying to sell these replica British Columbia Memorial Cross and Chinese diplomatic plates. He says he has 10 copies of each.
As usual with his replicas, the plates are not quite right.
The Memorial Cross plate has the words British Columbia printed wrong and the cross is not printed correctly.
The Chinese diplomatic plate is missing the dot separator in the middle.
The big problem is going to come later when some of these plates get into the market. From a photo during a sale or trade it could be difficult to tell if the plate or plates are genuine or not.
This just makes everything difficult for everyone. Reproductions are very bad for the hobby and if you care about the future of the hobby, it is better you do not buy reproductions, especially poor quality ones like this seller makes.
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