Fake 36

Just about a month now since the last scored fake, from the Crown at Seven Dials, noticed at reference 1.

This fake comes from what appears to be another London public house of long standing, the Goat of Safford Street, just off Albemarle Street. Noticed here several times before. Noticed on this occasion for its fake brown wood floor, which amused me considering that there is plenty of real brown wood in the place.

With the floor in question being upstairs, where we sometimes retire to escape the noisy Mayfair types downstairs. At least, Mayfair types in so far as where they work.

While it is clearly not regular, old brown wood floor boarding, it might well be old brown wood floor boards which have been passed through a factory, tarted up and cut into various suitable lengths and then sold on, perhaps as reconditioned. Almost certainly for a good deal more to the foot than was paid the first time around, perhaps as long as a hundred years ago.

But then I might be quite wrong. It might actually be some kind of fibre board, faced up with cunningly printed brown plastic. Manufactured from scratch just two or three years ago. In China?

Reference 1: http://psmv3.blogspot.com/2018/05/fake-35.html.