This 10-inch bronze plate is an antique mall and eBay regular. It is made of an alloy of zinc, tin and copper and finished in an olive-bronze patina. The highly raised design is a Dutch girl chasing a goose. A Dutch village is in the background. The girls face and hands resemble ivory but are Incolay Ivory, the trade name for an ivory-imitation resin.

This new 10-inch hand painted wood plate closely copies a mid-19th century style of decoration. The body is a mustard color with black border trim and date. A slightly darker mustard color is trailed and combed over the entire surface.

Some reproduction buggies are copies of vintage originals but others are "fantasies" and have no known old counterparts. All the new products are hand made and commonly show tool marks. Many of the items are unknowingly offered as old by even experienced dealers. The pieces can be found in almost every show, mall and flea markets.

There are several varieties of reproduction toy and hobby horses on the market. These include rocking horses, platform horses, combination platform/rocking horses, small carousel-type figures, tricycle-styled horses and stick horses.

Rivets are illogically placed on the bottoms of new sleigh runners. The rivet heads would wear off with use. No vintage sleigh runners are constructed in this manner.

In Jurassic Park, scientists create living dinosaurs from dinosaur DNA taken from blood sucking prehistoric insects preserved in amber. New pieces of fake amber with insects are now on the market to supply the demand apparently created by the popular book and movie.

This new Art Nouveau styled metal snail lamp is available with a variety of new art glass shades which form the shell. The shade shown here is blue iridescent with millefiori sections and white trailing vines smoothed into the surface. Other shades include plain gold iridescent and plain blue iridescent. The new shades are extremely thick, typically 1/4 or more at the bottom rim. Two metal spring clips hold the shade; original period lighting is more securely held with set screws. This new lamp is not a copy of a specific original lamp but rather a copy of the general Art Nouveau style such as the vintage example shown below. The new lamp and shade wholesale at $145.

Ornamental ironwork is generally of two types, wrought or cast. Cast iron is made in molds; wrought iron is formed, or forged, by hand. Cast iron is generally a means of mass production dating primarily from the mid 18th century on; wrought iron has been worked since ancient times.

A United States source sold a series of 50 different new prints with scenes and portraits from the American Civil War (see list below).