We’ve all done it, bought that pair of bookends online, as absentee bidder, or just spur-of-the-moment purchase, and lived to regret it. Recently a collector found he had purchased, as an absentee bidder, some crude reproductions of a Bradley & Hubbard pair and sent the images to Bookend Collector. He also noticed that a similar set was also being sold on eBay and wants to alert the bookend collecting community to the possibilities of acquiring fraudulent B & H bookends. Notice that the B & H shopmark appears on the copies.
Crude Reproduction
Notice Pitting
Faux B&H Bookends
Take a look at the photos the collector sent of the crude reproduction and compare them to a real, and well-cast, B&H bookend.
The Real B&H Bookends
The Bookend Collector 
Nola Johnson
July 30, 2013 at 17:47
Thank you so much–we learn something new every day.
Chris Bernhard
May 15, 2013 at 16:55
Spotted one of these fakes at Brimfield Antique Show yesterday. No price tag on the set; dealer may not have been knowledgeable in bookends.
Bob Shreve
May 5, 2013 at 13:53
Thanks for posting. Bob ShreveAkman & Associates, P.C.www.akmanpc.comrsshreve@akmanpc.com345 Southpointe Boulevard, Suite 100Canonsburg, PA 15317800.982.4078Fax 724.514.1016