You've just bought a Clarice Cliff from an antiques fair and are eager to make some money on eBay. How do you know whether it is genuine or counterfeit? This is a general guide to some of the common pitfalls....
A NEW DEVELOPMENT FOR ALL LLADRO COLLECTORS:- PLEASE GO TO MY "me" PAGE (AT THE TOP RIGHT OF EVERY LISTING, NEXT TO MY USER NAME). HERE YOU WILL FIND DETAILS OF MY NEW SITE. I see so many listings on eBay for...
Oldcourt ware is an attractive lustre type ceramic produced by J. Fryer of Tunstall, Staffordshire until quite recently. Note that although the Oldcourt name is mainly associated with lustre-ware many...
ALL ABOUT SWAROVSKI Swarovski was founded in 1895 by Daniel Swarovski I. It has since developed into an international entity with numerous subsidiaries and is currently in the process of reorganizing its North...
This guide looks at Troika - but another guide I have looks a little wider.It is just an occasional series of posts to point out anything that even I can spot as an obvious fake. In pointing these out I stress...
Since there appears to be no guides to buyers of Art Deco lighting I am offering this in the hope it may be useful to those about to take their first step to owning an icon of this fascinating period. Firstly,...
The first thing to say about Lomonosov Porcelain is it is NOT RARE !! Their animal figurines were sold in the UK before the last war in WOOLWORTHS! My Mum brought the Large and small Pandas for 3/6d (17.5...
I have 100s of Bridgewater mugs collected over 20 years . There seems to be a lot written in these reviews about 'fake' Bridgewater mugs and the need to check they are genuine. I have never come across a...
Clarice was born in Tunstall, Stoke-on-Trent, England, the daughter of Harry Thomas Cliff and Ann Machin; her father was the great-great-great grandson of Thomas Wedgwood IV (1716-1773), the eldest brother of...
There are a lot of fake Laurel and Hardy cruet sets being sold on e-bay at the moment, supposedly made by Beswick. These are direct copies of the original but have been made in China, very cheaply. The fakes...