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Glass Identification - Post here for all ID requests => Glass => Topic started by: Pinkspoons on October 13, 2009, 12:08:00 PM

Title: Fake Per Lütken signature - is it actually on a Wedgwood decanter?
Post by: Pinkspoons on October 13, 2009, 12:08:00 PM

I took a punt on this decanter with a set of Canada glasses because the signature the seller described when I enquired about it sounded just like the one used on production samples. I didn't recognise the shape, but the colour in the photograph and the general style looked okay.

It arrived today and the colour is pretty much Wedgwood 'Midnight', the decanter body - now I have reason to question it and look elsewhere - is near-identical to Thrower's 'Marcel' decanter, the Lütken signature completely unlike the real-world one, and the engraved numbering completely apart from anything Holmegaard have ever used.

http://cgi.ebay.co.uk/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&item=260486281981&ssPageName=STRK:MEWNX:IT

Are my Wedgwood suspicions correct?

Title: Re: Fake Per Lütken signature - is it actually on a Wedgwood decanter?
Post by: Pinkspoons on October 13, 2009, 12:15:11 PM

Yup... to answer my own question.... it does seem to be a 'Marcel' decanter with a ball stopper.  ::)