Well, I haven't written much about the Golden Glowless Club in awhile but it's time to expose them again. For the past couple of years a very well know kugel collector has been selling very rare amethyst grapes online and elsewhere for thousands of dollars. The only problem is they are fakes. I'm not talking about the fake 12" grape molds that have been selling ever since Scott Tagliapietra and Jim (Mr Santa Claus) Morrison began selling them in the 1980"s but these are generally the 6" and up grape molds.
This person over the years became one of the major Kugel collectors in the World because he had deep pockets and always won the auctions. But he had financial and other problems and he learned how to insert silvering in the old kugels that had no silvering and sold them as original.
Worse, he started making fake molds in Amethyst a very very rare color and has been selling them for years.
The crooks in the club know who he is but they don't care. A lot of them are the same crooks who outed me from the club when I tried to expose the frauds: Kim Knight, Michael Rhoads, Steve Wilt, Jack Maroski, Lillie Ghidiu, Tony Annese, Steven Daniel and Craig McManus all knew of the fraud.
The crooked Board members for years have looked the other way when one of their own sells fakes. They protect each other.
Craig McManus surely knows who he is but as usual he stays quiet just like he did when I found out that Tagliapietra was selling fake grape kugels back in the day. (Read an earlier post of my trip to India).
So, I would steer clear of any Amythest grape kugels. On the other hand I have the only known 7" green berry for sale. Email me for better photos if interested at jlightner1@gmail.com. (sold)
The first photo shows 8 1/2" fakes grape kugels I bought from Scott Tagliapietra that are fakes worth $5 ea that I found in India; the second photo is a fake from India someone bought from the crook, Richard Wright estate a few years ago. Scott was a good friend of Wright's and visited him often where he and others would joke about how they had all suckered clients in to buying mis matched Santas etc etc.
