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David Scocca went out on a limb on patch-l with an interesting perspective on the flood of fakes, overruns, and backdoor distribution of patches that currently infects our hobby.  His is an interesting take on this issue that I had not really thought about it before.  It’s not a position I’m prepared to say I completely agree with.  He has allowed me to quote him here.

I think modern artificial rarities are wrong and a bad thing for lodges and councils to do.  To the extent that “fakes” or “overruns” discourage production of highly restricted patches and/or make them available to people who weren’t lucky enough to have access to item when it was first released, I think the manufacturers who let them out the back door are actually doing a service.

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