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Welcome Vexxa! You’re in the right place. 🙂
Your dragon looks real to me and I agree the pad seems to have been removed. I don’t know anything about the V but maybe somebody else does.
Splendid! I figured he was real, but I’m not in the know and had no idea if fakes have gotten sophisticated. Yeah, the pad’s removal was really weird to me? It’s stained where the adhesive was, but there’s no stickiness left at all, which makes me think it was a long time ago rather than through the shop’s donation/sales process.
No need to respond (maybe TMI) but the time matches up… wasn’t the Flea World flea market in Sanford FL was it? Just because way back when one of the vendors there was a dealer in authentic Windstones. You may have been seeing the real deal if so. But I also have a resin/acrylic knockoff from a different vendor there.
Oh, nah. I’m in the midwest! I asked my mom about it and she confirmed that they were some kind of acrylic/resin/plastic because she was going to buy one for my birthday. She wasn’t aware of Windstones at the time, but they wanted $65 for their knock-off hatchings and that was way too much to her for plastic dragons. Something seemed off to her, and I guess that was it? They had heaps of them, though. Multiple glass cases full! A shame they slipped off at some point. Would you mind sending me pictures of your resin guy? I’d love to keep the pics on hand for comparisons out in the wild.
Hello lovely people,
It has dawned on me that my beloved Gareth, is in fact a knock off. Bought in Adelaide Australia in the late 80’s, just wanting to get feedback about its authenticity. Many thanks to those who can offer their expertise.
Warm wishes
BelindaIt is likely that he is a knock-off . The paint scheme does not match the brown dragons.
I can’t tell from your photo – does he have glass eyes? If the eyes are not glass then he definitely is a knock-off. Also, there should be a stamp on the bottom or a pad that says “Windstone Editions”.Of course, even if Gareth is a knock-off you still can love him!
Thank you Etruscan, the eyes are solid black, no glass, you’re right the paint color is also nothing like the color palette used on the brown gold dragon of 1986. It seems they are still making knock offs which makes me upset for the artist.Surely there are plagiarism intellectual property rights to protect her work.
https://www.etsy.com/nz/listing/232040781/mythical-dragon-statue-11-sculpture-home
There’s a report fakes and knock-offs pinned thread within the General Windstone subforum. The fake you linked pops up fairly frequently; I’ve reported a few of them in the past.
The figures and color schemes that WE produces are protected by copyright/IP/trademark and WE does act on reports of fakes being sold.Thank you Etruscan, the eyes are solid black, no glass, you’re right the paint color is also nothing like the color palette used on the brown gold dragon of 1986. It seems they are still making knock offs which makes me upset for the artist.Surely there are plagiarism intellectual property rights to protect her work.
https://www.etsy.com/nz/listing/232040781/mythical-dragon-statue-11-sculpture-home
John Alberti handles copyright issues for Windstone. You can email him to report copyright infringements.
john@windstoneeditions.com
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