STUDY DAY 2012 | DECEPTION | TRAPS FOR THE COLLECTOR OF EARLY ENGLISH GLASS with Bill Davis

This lecture will consider three characteristics of early English table glass, namely the material, its style, and its decoration, which attract faking and forging activities. The problem of honest reproductions being sold as originals, (becoming fakes), will also be discussed. Accounts of forgeries in museum collections will be included as well as examples from the lecturer’s collection.

William (Bill) Davis has been a collector of early English glass for over 30 years and is advisor to The Johnston Collection in his area of interest.

This lecture was presented as part of STUDY DAY 2012 | THE DELICATE ART OF DECEPTION | revealing fakes and forgeries held on Saturday 13 October 2012, 10.00am – 4.30pm

Illustration from Geoffrey Wills, The Country Life Collector’s Pocket Book of Glass, Country Life, London, 1966