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From Renate

 

6th March 2008

 

Hattat had fakes which are copied in multiples today?

 

 

Some images of a fake Hattatt stag brooch

  

 

 

 





Zoomorphic brooches in general were made by Celtic artists and are of British and Gaulish origin.

 

It's often possible to determine whether they're made in Britian or “Gaul”. The style  is not  traditionally Celtic; these were copied from Roman types .  No pairs - they were worn as single pieces and  as ancient people were like us, mostly right handed and so there is some degree of specificity in the direction which genuine brooches and their pins face.

 

The Celts made brooches  of the animals that were important to them and decorated them with enamel cells. Most of the brooches depict rabbits, dogs, horses, fish, various birds and even insects. With the representation of mammals the number of enamelled cells follows a stylistic canon. The cells are separated by a bronze string. I cannot find a parallel for the piece shown above.

 

To illustrate that multiples of the same fake are being produced  from the same mould: the top image is composed of the two below overlaid upon each other.

 



Another fake stag brooch. The relative length of the brooch pins is worth noting. (Image below)

 



These are the “clones”  of this type.  From eBay sellers clairecoins, caligula art, vergina and www_cfancients_com.jpg

 






And one rabbit (fake)  to show the type.

 

 



 

To illustrate the type of decoration: rabbits from Hattatt’s  visual catalogue .

 



To illustrate there is no piece the brooch design is taken from: stag brooches from visual catalogue.

 

 

 

 



Some examples from a place in Luxemburg:

 

 





 

Brooches from Hattatt's collection have either stands or attached tags as far as I know (I guess the tags are the low quality pieces he stored in drawers), and a tiny 4-digit number written in white on them.

 

This is one of mine to show the tags, sellers's photo and own photo:

 



The seller of the “Hattatt”  sent an image of Hattatt displays which  He took it from another sellers catalogue:

 



And finally, another another Hattatt display stand with a genuine brooch from the Hattatt colection!

 




More fakes Roman brooches.