It's also interesting to check for pictures on Ebay, purporting to be by Staithes Group artists and bearing signatures (always the last thing to look at!) but which have nothing in common with the work of the Group! They often have my biographies accompanying them - without permission, of course - together with implications of the bargains they are, compared with good examples of the real thing!!!

I copy some of the most outrageous, with a view to finding the most ludicrous. Try it - it''s quite good fun! Check this one out:
http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&item=150378661023&ssPageName=ADME:B:SS:US:1123

I didn't know how to illustrate this section, so have used very good authentic examples by two of the artists whose easily printed signatures are most often abused in this way.