How to Tell if Staffordshire Pottery Is a Reproduction
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🏺 Spotting Reproduction Staffordshire Pottery: A Serious Collector’s Guide
⚒️ 1. Base Myths & Modern Tricks
You often hear, “If the base is glazed, it’s modern.” Not so fast.
So what to look for?
- Often will have large hole to faciallitate quick cooling and release on steam in the base.
Always combine base checks with the rest of the piece—base alone is no longer proof.
🖌️ 2. Painting, Enamel, and Glaze: Sloppy vs. Too Slick
✨ 3. Gilding: The Real Gold Standard
When Was Gold Added?
Key Clues:
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Modern gold is too bright, often synthetic, and wears evenly (or not at all).
- Old figures will be fairly light for their size too even early solid one will be light as they will be a terrocotta type pot.
- Quality will be best guide if they have cabbage patch like faces likley not old if we had peices to hand can show you whats what, hard to give 48 years worth of dealing across in a few lines antwat we tried.
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Peter Gee
March 01, 2026
Hi. If I sent you a pic would you be able to tell if the figure is original or a fake?
Regards