• HOME
• ABOUT THIS SITE
• SHOP
• OUR NEW BOOK
• COLLECTORS' RESOURCES
• WHAT'S NEW
• MYSTERY ARTIFACTS
• REAL OR FAKE?
  • ABOUT Real or Fake
  • The Fakebusters and other websites about fakery
  • Would you believe it!
  • Sea find amphoras...read this!!!
  • Fake ancient jewellery
  • Fakes and forgeries in Classical pottery
  • Fake Classical pottery section 2
  • Fake classical pottery, section 3
  • Fake rings
  • Fake rings section 2
  • Fake rings , section 3
  • Fake oil lamps
  • Fake oil lamps section 2
  • Fake Roman bronzes
  • Fake Roman bronzes section 2
  • Fake and reproduction Roman mosaics
  • Fake Roman brooches
  • Fake Roman brooches section 2
  • Fake Roman brooches section 3
  • Fake Roman brooches, section 4
  • Fake Roman brooches section 5
  • Fake Roman military diplomas
  • Fake Roman weapons
  • Fake ancient helmets
  • Roman lead slingshot
  • Fake Roman phallic amulets
  • Fake Greco-Roman statues
  • Fake ancient glass
    • Fake ancient glass: varieties
    • Cast mosaic glass
    • Fake core formed glass
      • Fake core formed glass (2)
        • Fake core formed glass 3
          • Fake core formed glass, page 4
            • Forgeries of core formed glass, page 5
    • Fake Lotus beakers
    • A famous type of fake
    • Fake Egyptian glass
    • Fake iridescence
  • Fake Cypriot Plank Idols
  • Fake Danubian rider lead plaques
  • Fake Phoenician head pendants
  • Fake Egyptian
  • Fake Sumerian statues
  • Fake cuneiform tablets
  • Fake cuneiform, section 2
  • Fake cuneiform section 3
  • Fake cuneiform tablets , section 4
  • Fake cylinder seals
  • Fake cylinder seals, section 2
  • Fake cylinder seals section 3
  • Fake cylinder seals section 4
  • Fake foundation cones
  • Fake bronze and iron weapons
  • Fake Syro-Hittite figurines
  • Fake Old Babylonian erotic plaques
  • Tell Halaf "mother goddess" figurines
  • Tell Halaf figurines section 2
  • Eye Idols of Tell Brak
  • Eyes idols, section 2
  • Fake Sumerian perforated plaques
  • Bactrian chlorite composite figurines
  • Bactrian chlorite figures, section 2
  • Fake Stone Age implements
  • Chinese Song dyn "hare's fur" bowls
  • Fake Indian terracottas
• GENERAL INFORMATION
• SEARCH
• SITE MAP
• CONTACT US
• SIGN UP FOR UPDATES

YOU ARE HERE:>>REAL or FAKE>>Fake ancient glass>>core formed glass, page 5

More examples.

Photos with thanks,  from Adam.

 From David

21st September 2009

The best advice I can give anybody who wants to collect ancient core glass is to get hold of a copy  of David Grose's Early Ancient Glass where you will see the most comprehensive selection of core glass ever documented. From that you will see that the examples that you are exhibiting on your web site (as fakes) are indeed very much fakes because:

A/ The colours are not matching those found in antiquity. Of course they had blues, reds and yellows in antiquity but not of the hues or shades exhibited in your examples and not mixed in that way. If you look at the examples in museums or in Grose's book you will see immediately what we mean.

B/ The shapes are approximately right but are not the right proportions or form. Again just look at the examples in Museums or Grose and you will see the difference.

C/ The patina is artificial and is a technique developed in Syria. if you put water on the surface the patina completely disappears but returns when dry. 

The fakes you show on your website are typical of those found a lot on eBay.

These with thanks to Steve.

From his fakes study collection.

And two I came across recently.

No comment really needed!