It would have been a crime for me NOT to bid on this ... I think it's going to be outta my final price range, though...

Monkey Pitcher

DG

repro

Happy New Year Peter!!!!!

Oh, but it's fabulous.

>Happy New Year Peter!!!!!

thanks but not yet, still 4 more hours...

The repro monkey or the Mayor's Peter?

I was remarking on DG's pitcher. Where can I place a bid on the other item?

A-Town flea market?

Enormusbay?

tee hee hee

EnormASSBay.

DG

Um, no.
SkinnyAssBoy.

My shwanger has already been bought
off mkt. anonymously for an undisclosed
amount of pancakes.

bonne FUCKING année!

( from the other side of zee pond)

I've seen tons of those "Majolica" repro pitchers lately, another common one being the pelican, and all of them say they're antiques.
Somebody is good at ceramics...but also a liar.

Bonne année à vous!

Yeah, there was a pelican too .... maybe the ceramics he uses are really old, but they're new repros.

DG

In almost all cases these barbotine repros are made by the original factory (or its successor company), as a standard stock item. They're easy to tell from the turn of the century originals - the details of the moulding are less crisp, the colours are very different, usually cruder and brighter, and the glaze has an entirely different character. They are in most case clearly differently marked on the base, and are not made to deceive.

Its quite obvious from the bidding levels which ones on eBay are repros and which are originals.

They're all from the same seller, too, someone who claims to be an American in France "for the next 6 mos" so they can't answer e-mails.

What tipped me off was that the same 3 pitchers keep reappearing as authentic antiques from the same seller...