Hi,

I just happened to stumble across this post and noticed a link to some photos that are from my collection

http://www.flickr.com/photos/natalie_retrogirl/5939005376/in/photostream

I am a mad barsony collector and it makes me very mad when I see people trying to pass off obvious fakes to unsuspecting buyers and actually getting good money for them.

The black figure in my picture is marked "FL13 Barsony". Treasure hunting one afternoon I found the brown lady lamp at a store in newcastle.

It has no markings at all and who knows who made it but as you can see it near identical to the Barsony.

It can be difficult to tell whether lamps or figurines are genuine barsony because not all Barsony's are marked and many of the stickers are long gone.

But the H19s that are being sold are definately fakes. I have even seen some marked 'made in england' and when theyre in front of you , you can tell that they were made not all that long ago.