MADAM – In the first issue of the New Year (ATG No 2323) you report on page 7 that your readers “are vexed by fakes more than Brexit”.
It might dismay them even more if they knew that the prominent illustration on the front page shows a sextant which itself is a reproduction.
As a former dealer specialising in scientific instruments, these are recognisable to me at once, and are usually known as ‘Bombay copies’.