A few months ago, I purchased a group of jewelry. In the lot was a large silver cuff bracelet with raised daisies on the front. Lo & behold, the bracelet was marked “Tiffany & Co”. After some research, I found that this Daisy cuff design is part of the Nature Series. I did not know if the bracelet was authentic or not, so I took it to my local Tiffany store for their opinion. My bracelet turned out to be a fake but it took four Tiffany employees inspecting and discussing the bracelet to decide that the bracelet is fake. That’s how good the counterfeit Tiffany jewelry producers have become. They have the details of the jewelry down to the finest degree. According to the Tiffany salespeople, much of the Tiffany jewelry being re-sold or sold on the Internet is fake.
eBay is trying to crack down on sellers who are offering fake Tiffany but it’s hard to catch everything. Key word spamming (using word like Tiffany or Tiffany inspired) is against eBay policy and is a blatant disregard for the rules. Today, though, I ran across a seller who is selling Tiffany replicas without calling them so but the items are photographed on a Tiffany blue background. Very misleading, in my opinion.
I obtained another cuff bracelet recently. This one is Mexican silver and is a few years old. It’s clearly marked “Mexico”. But it’s a dead ringer for Elsa Peretti’s sterling bone cuff on Tiffany’s web site.
I used to think that having a Tiffany pouch or box was good enough authentication that an item is the real thing. But these boxes and bags are being copied and sold too. The only way I’d purchase a pre-owned Tiffany piece is to see a sales receipt from the original sale.
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HI, TIFFANY FAKES????? FIRST I WILL SAY BUYERS OF TIFFANY & CO AND ALSO TIFFANY STUDIOS ITEMS SHOULD DO MUCH RESERCH AND LOOK AT MANY ITEMS OF TIFFANY ANTIQUES. IT’S BUYER’S BEWARE IN JEWLERY AND TIFFANY STUDIOS ITEMS. IF YOU ARE GOING TO INVEST YOU MUST KNOW THE ITEMS AND NOT TRUST ANYONE INCLUDING SELLERS. FIND OUT THERE BACKGROUND AND YEARS OF HANDELING TIFFANY ITEMS, INCLUDING TIFFANY STUDIOS ITEMS. ON THIS SAME WEB PAGE IS TIFFANY FAKES.COM THERE SITE HAS MANY TIFFANY ITEMS THAT ARE REAL TIFFANY, LAMPS,BASES, SHADES, THAT ARE AUTHENTIC, THIS SHOWES THAT THESE PEOPLE ARE NOT QUALIFIED TO TELL ANYONE ANYTHING ABOUT TIFFANY STUDIOS. TIFFANY ITEMS ARE VERY EXPENSIVE AND DRAW A CROUD TO BUY THEM THINKING THERE IS MONEY TO BE MADE IN TIFFANY&CO AND TIFFANY STUDIOS ITEMS, GREED CAUSES MANY FAKES. TIFFANY STUDIOS ITEMS HAVE BEEN MESSED WITH FOR YEARS AND TIFFANY JEWLERY IS NO EXCEPTION. A REAL TIFFANY ANTIQUE ITEM WOULD BE WORTH MANY TIMES MORE THAN THE FAKES. YOU NEED TO RESERCH AND KNOW THE ITEMS BEFORE BUYING ANY ANTIQUE, NOT JUST BUY IT BECAUSE YOU THINK IT MIGHT BE WORTH MUCH MORE. LIES ABOUND ON EBAY AND ANTIQUE SHOWS. MANY DEAL;ERS DON’T KNOW THE FIRST THING ABOUT TIFFANY ANTIQUES EXCEPT THE MONEY THEY MAY MAKE OF OF ITE ITEMS. DEALERS GET SCAMMED MORE THAN THE PUBLIC BECAUSE THEY DON’T KNOW THE ANTIQUES THEY BUY. IT’S BUYERS BEWARE AND KNOW THE ITEMS YOU ARE BUYING. TIFFANY FAKES.COM IS ONE TO BEWARE OF THEY KNOW NOTHING AND LIE ABOUT THE PROUCTS THEY PICTURE. ANY NOVIS WOULD KNOW MOST OF THE JUNK THEY PICTURE. IF A DEALER WILL BACK THERE ITEMS AND GIVE A FULL REFUND THEN YOU CAN FEEL SAFER THAN SHADY DEALS. I BELIEVE AUDREY CHAPLINE IS A CONSERNED AND HONEST SELLER TO OPEN THIS SITE, JEFF
I totally agree about the fraudulent Tiffanyfakes website My name is Bruce Goldberg and boy do I have a story for you.Tiffanyfakes.com.is a Sham .Anybody who does not put there name to a web page has devious purposes. so I will share the or underhanded reasons So I will enlighten you folks. The owner and writer of Tiffany fakes. com is Ed Cadden I’ll let you be the judge. Tiffrany fakes was put together by a slime named Ed Cadden from Florida. He sells and buys on Ebay under the name interbayestate he’s had approx 1500 transactions on Ebay and has over 60 negatives his feedback is 84% This man Ed Cadden likes to queer everybodys sales and I hear he works with another tiffany dealer in Englewood NJ The man is nefarious Please check his feedback out and read about him and his comments to buyers and sellers..One of the top Tiffany and Lamp dealers on Ebay just gave him a negative. So Please you must take what this slime says with a grain of Heroin..Just read his feedback INTERBAYESTATE AS FOR BUYING A FAKE all you have to do is see how long the sellers have been in business and peruse all their feedback and get a guarantee from them that the item is correct. If they are willing to do that you should be OK Tiffany Fakes.com is a Sham and I hope the Feds start investigating Ed Caddens ties to other select dealers on the East Coast..Most people believe when something is in print that it is true..Well Ed Cadden owner of tiffanyfakes.com How do you explain having one of the lowest feedback ratings on all of Ebay 60 negatives Folks if you are reading this site you are being defrauded in my opinion.
NEW NEWS ON THE WAR FRONT OF TIFFANYFAKES.COM. AKA INTERBAYESTATE ON EBAY, THE JERK THAT PULL’S YOUR PICTURE AND DESIDES WEATHER YOUR ITEMS ARE FAKE OR REAL, WELL FOLKS HERE IS A NEWS FLASH!!! THE LATEST ON ED CADDEN OF BOTH LISTED ABOVE, SEEM’S THAT LAST WEEK THIS ED CADDEN LISTED A FAKE TIFFANY ZODIAC DESK LAMP ON EBAY!! YES FAKE NOT REAL BUT A GOOD FAKE THAT WAS INCORRECT IN SEVERAL WAYS GO TO INTERBAYESTATE ON EBAY TO SEE THE BIG ROSY RED NEGATIVE MARK BUY THE BUYER ON HIS FEEDBACK. THIS SHOULD BE THE END OF THIS IDIOT BUT HE WON’T QUIT UNTIL HE HAS A MILLION DOLLOR LAW SUIT AGAINST HIM, FOR NOW WHOEVER LISTEN’S TO THE 2 IDIOPTS THAT RUN THIS SITE IN THE DARK AND GIVE NO NAMES SHOULD BE IGNORED FROM NOW ON WANT THE PROOF GO TO INTERBAYESTATE AND SEE FOR YOURSELF, IN HIS FEEDBACK, BEWARE OF ANYTHING THESE STUPID PEOPLE SAY OR DO. KNOWINGLY SOLD A FAKE TIFFANY DESK LAMP, BEWARE
Hey folks interested in a CLASS ACTION lawsuit against Ed Cadden and TIFFANYFAKES.COM website…please contact me at MPD334@cfl.rr.com with your story…if he has harrased you and your listing and has caused any loss of sales by providing false information to potential buyers then send me your story.
I would say that the above troll(s) vociferous attack on the TiffanyFakes website would indicate that they are likely sellers of fake Tiffany items.(atrocious spelling and grammar guys…or is it (1) guy with numerous IDs)
The fact is that there are a ton of fakes out there, especially in the Tiffany Studios glass and lamps. The Fakes website provides valuable info in my opinion and it was one of the first sites I studied before starting to collect Tiffany Studios items. As I understand it, it may be one guy who runs it, but he has a panel of knowledgable collectors who also serve as consultants for the site.
It’s quite possible that they make the occasional mistake and label an authentic piece as a fake but I would say that 99 out of 100 pieces they have pictured there are out and out fakes.
If the above trolls are upset, why not go get a signed authentication for your piece from a recognized Tiffany expert and post it on Ebay with your item listing? I would say that TiffanyFakes serves to shine a light on the roaches that peddle these fakes…and they’re clearly upset about someone jeopardizing their ongoing scams.
Knowledge is power. Those who want to collect Tiffany Studios items should read every resource book available, go to shows and museum exhibitions and see the autentic stuff up close, speak to reputable dealers and collectors, and only then start collecting. Time well spent will result in money well spent. …and visit TiffanyFakes. It’s an eye-opener!
I contacted Tiffany fakes.com with photos of two signed Tiffany Studio candelabras they said they are fake!! Then I sent the photos to a number of high end Tiffany sellers and one auctioneer that has major lighting book on the market and was told that are indeed Tiffany Studio pieces!! So I don’t know who these guys are at Tiffany fakes.com but it appears they know little about the pieces they are claiming to be fake. It seems they can’t even recognize a real piece of Tiffany so how can they make any claims. My pieces are indeed real and I will list them as such and ignore the people at Tiffany fakes.com I truly believe the reputable people I know that deal in fine Tiffany far more than some people hiding their identity. Sadly people believe everything they read and that is how these guys at Tiffany fakes.com get a following. We need an honest source of information not fly by night web sites!!! Big Tom