I would think that jewels could be duplicated, exactly. I would think that insurance would demand it.
The rubes looking through a case would never know the difference.
The rubes looking through a case would never know the difference.
Something like a fake one and only jeweled artifact in a famed museum would be public knowledge. As you say, fakes are a dime a dozen and would only draw flies.
Yeah, look up “paste”. It’s been used for about two hundred years to duplicate real jewels. At a distance of a meter or so, no casual observer knows, or cares. They are only in the tourist spot to experience their moment, and it doesn’t matter if the the thing is real or fake as long as it has been promoted as being real.
(Hmmm, what a great comparison I’ve just made.)