Vintage frame Advice damaged forks.

Was thinking of bidding on an old track frame on ebay, but the forks are damaged. The seller reckons that they were squashed when someone fitted an old resilion brake bracket to them and over tightened it/fitted a d-shaped fork bracket to a round section fork. Any advice/thoughts etc about whether seems safe to ride or not?

The seller says they are-bought though I would ask for opinions here.

Cheers,

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Fucked.

Yup.

though as much, oh well

Double fucked....what the fuck was the man thinking? Surely as he tightened whatever he was tightening, he would have realised?

I know, you'd think you'd realise as the paint split to start with, let alone when then the forks began to crumble up. Looked at the other images again, seems like both sides of the fork too! To be fair to the seller, I'm pretty sure he just sells on old parts as a business and didn't do it himself, but still...Shame-such a lovely old pre war track frame as well...
I figured even the slightest damage like this done to a cylinder of cold steel would compromise the integrity on the tubing, but you know, hoped I might be wrong some how...