LEMONS,FAKES & GENERAL MISTAKES

Isn't it meant to have an 'S' on the end of Fielding?

You're right TC. Didn't notice that difference in the book.

Pottery of this type was very common at my local auction, one dealer who is also a friend of the auctioneer used to bring it up from Stoke for every sale. After they'd done people with the Dorothy Anne pots, they moved onto Lorna Bailey.

Are you from the north of England as I suspect there's quite a lot floating around up here?

Thanks rob s Yes north lincs will keep them

Stamford auctions had a 'Poole studio' vase on their latest catalogue - lot 167 - with a fake backstamp. I pointed this out to them and the listing now states 'Poole style' vase. Why didn't they just remove it from the auction instead of allowing fakes to continue to circulate. Maybe if more people complain about it they will remove it completely.

I like to have a scan through ebay every now and then just to see if there might be anything of interest or if I want to laugh at some of the prices and descriptions. Today I came across 2 Poole fakes in just a few minutes. Have a look for the 'poole pottery cat jug' - 4 days to go, and the 2 brown and cream vases - 3 days to go.

I messaged a seller with Kernow in their user name last year about fake Poole sales. I wonder if it was the brown and cream vase seller?

Probably, user name is maidofkernow. They have replied to my message and saying they couldn't be fakes or they wouldn't have bought them !! But they are going to remove them from sale to check with Poole pottery. Not sure how much of that to believe but I won't waste my time replying and getting into countless to and fro messaging.

I stopped looking like you, philpot, but I thought that I would just check Alan Wallwork items on there after your remarks.

There are two garish AW fakes on there for sale at the moment and in the sold list a few that clearly are not Wallworks but sold as such. One sold by an auction house "Modern Design & Studio Ceramics Consultant Specialist" no less.

The ones with the red glaze are fakes. If Alan was still around I suspect that he would have sent rather abusive messages to the sellers, which he often did. I know that he even got onto eBay on occasions but they didn't want to know.

I remember once that he wrote to a seller suggesting that the AW was more likely to be Amy Winehouse than him. The seller's response was to add to his listing that some crank had suggested that it was by Amy Winehouse. Failing to mention that the person he called a "crank" was Alan, himself.

The bowl with the W is Alan's early work - he gave me a couple of tenmoku glazed vases with that mark to sell for him in the dim and distant passed. I can't remember if they got bought or binned but they really are of no more value than a bowl or vase with an unidentified W mark.

I noticed that myself and thought that it was a shame that one couldn't post an image of the item that we are talking about.

So I took a photograph of my computer screen.


I have often wondered if the screen is really a HP Pavilion 23cw or not.

yes the screen looks legit'

I'm amazed how many people on Ebay, Etsy etc are selling items that are obviously misrepresented. I've just bought a figurine which was made in England, but which was advertised as an 'Inuit Carving'! And I've also seen a brooch advertised for sale as dating from the 1960s...which is kind of accurate in that the maker was born in 1960, but you can buy an identical brooch, brand new for half the price of the 'very rare vintage' one!

I have no expertise at all (just like pre-loved/vintage items) and I'm also not very tech savvy, yet I managed to spot the flaws in both descriptions with just a few minutes of internet searching.

Since my lack of knowledge would make me an easy target for fakes, I follow my father's rule for buying - if you love it and are happy to pay that price to have it on your wall/display shelf, you can never be cheated!

there's an ebayer who's named after the infamous robber Jesse James, recently he listed a rather nasty bowl as 'Geoffrey Swindell?'.
I told him it was not made by Swindell, to which he replied 'Yes I know it isn't, I just put that on the listing to sell it'

dantheman wrote:there's an ebayer who's named after the infamous robber Jesse James, recently he listed a rather nasty bowl as 'Geoffrey Swindell?'.
I told him it was not made by Swindell, to which he replied 'Yes I know it isn't, I just put that on the listing to sell it'

I'd assumed the wrong descriptions were genuine mistakes, but perhaps not!

studio-pots wrote:So I took a photograph of my computer screen.

I have often wondered if the screen is really a HP Pavilion 23cw or not.

Taking this one step further, the garish thing or one from the same source that just happened to be on my computer screen in the summer when I took the photograph above, sold in the recent Adam Partridge Studio Ceramics & Modern Design sale as being by Alan Wallwork.

Not for as much as on eBay but it does mean that sellers, who have no intention to deceive, have what is regarded as a legitimate reason to list something as being by someone when it is not.