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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;dgbjwc, post: 4389303, member: 308&quot;]The news of fake Van Briggle pieces set off all kinds of alarm bells for me. I did know that the Lorelei and Despondency vases had been reproduced but thought they were the only pieces of VB that had been copied. I visited the Van Briggle Show and Tell facebook page and found the following statement from Curt Smith who I believe is one of the administrators on that site. It was posted in February of 2020.</p><p><br /></p><p>&quot;Just a note and a bit of info here to calm new pottery collectors and VB collectors particularly. During the time that I&#039;ve been a member of this group I have seen posts from time to time showing purchases by group members sometimes new to the group, asking if their purchase is a fake. Almost all of the pieces they ask about are fairly recent and common Van Briggle works. Understanding that you who ask this may be new to collecting it, I&#039;d like to reassure you that it would be a rare instance that a fairly inexpensive piece of pottery would be a candidate for faking. Fake Roseville from China pops up all the time and there may be folks who try to deceive from time to time but it&#039;s mainly on rarer more expensive pottery. In years of collecting VB I have never encountered a fake Van Briggle. Here&#039;s why you can be confident of your purchase. It would simply not make monetary sense to take the time and effort and money to throw a pot and glaze it and fire it and try to make it look like a piece you could find in any antique mall in the country for 10-50 dollars. It would be like taking all the time and effort to make counterfeit nickels. It just doesn&#039;t make sense from a money return sense. Hope this helps!&quot;[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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