Post #720011 by Miss Monk-ii on Thu, Jun 12, 2014 7:44 PM

Update:

Ebay has issued a full refund for the mug (the confirmation from Munktiki that it was a counterfeit made it a slam dunk in their opinion) and, per the deal, the mug has been destroyed. I felt a little bad about destroying a tiki mug but once I remembered the manufacturer was stealing from Munktiki the guilt quickly went away. Thank you to everyone that responded to my post.

Hello all. I picked up a mug advertised as a Munktiki Skull Monkey off ebay a couple weeks ago from a Canadian seller and, when it arrived, it seemed a bit too different from my other Skull Monkey. It's a little shorter, there are no markings of any sort on the back or the bottom of the mug (even the skull monkey is missing from the back), and the glaze seems different enough that I remembered mention of some counterfeit Munktiki designs floating around in Canada. I don't remember Munktiki doing an open edition of the Skull Monkey in white with black interior glaze. Did I manage to pick up one of those counterfeits? What do you think (and thank you for your advice)? I've included some pictures of my original mug and the one I just picked up side by side.

[ Edited by: Miss Monk-ii 2014-06-25 08:19 ]