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... SUBJECT of PEWTER. The Care, Preservation, and Treatment of that Lustrous Old Metal And How to Detect the Ubiquitous Modern Fake. By NORMAN ROBERTS. Few works of art have suffered more from time and carelessness than old pewter vessels. In earlier times ...
... MEEGEREN'S USE OF THE FAMOUS VERMEER PIGMENTS is shown in this colour guide to the faked picture Christ at Emmaus Vermeer had a love of deep blues and pale yellows, and in his faked masterpiece van Meegeren reproduced those tones to perfection. The picture was ...
... THE PILTDOWN RIDDLE The Most Famous Anthropological Discovery of the Century has been Exposed as an Elaborate Hoax When, during 1912-13, remains were unearthed at Piltdown, in Sussex, which were thought to be relics of man some 600,000 years old, the ...
... the dishonest dealer, his brother-in- law, Sam Tomlin f Mr, A. G. Poulton), his com mission on the profit made on a deal in faked Chippendale chairs. i. I he secret meeting of the lovers, Joe Quinney's daughter, Posy, and James, his foreman (Miss Marie ...
... original negative has been tested, enlarged, and analysed in the same exhaustive manner as A. This plate was badly under-exposed. Elsie was playing with the gnome, and beckoning it to come on to her knee. The gnome leapt up just as Frances, who had the ...
... Precaution you must fake Ensure health in the most intimate detail of personal hygiene. Use the Izal Toilet Roll, every sheet of which is thoroughly medicated with Izal, the most efficient disinfectant known to SjtMfK science. Don't expose your family to danger ...
... Precaution you must fake Ensure health in the most intimate detail of personal hygiene. Use the Izal Toilet Roll, every sheet of which is thoroughly medicated with Izal, the most efficient disinfectant known to SjtMfK science. Don't expose your family to danger ...
... artificial and fantastic that it leaves no permanent impression. These pictures are generally exhibited together with such fakes as the traffic at Piccadilly Circus moving rapidly backwards, or a ride in a taxicab, taken with long intervals between exposures ...
... tradition. AN EXPENSIVE FAKE Only yesterday I was told of a famous French collector who bought a reliquary in Hungary for a million francs, many years ago, upon the express condition of having it vetted in Paris. Here it was pronounced a fake by the experts ...
... and Military Police exposed many small distilleries hidden in peasant cottages, farm attics and stables. By evading the high tax on spirits, these bootleggers were collecting as much as 600 francs for a quart of this dangerous faked brandy. Discoveries ...
... specialised in the concoction of faked lacquer bureaux. He was said to be skilled in the processes of varnish painting as practised by the old English lacquer painters. It was his habit to buy in the first place a faked or semi-faked antique bureau of the right ...
... tradition. AN EXPENSIVE FAKE Only yesterday I was told of a famous French collector who bought a reliquary in Hungary for a million francs, many years ago, upon the express condition of having it vetted in Paris. Here it was pronounced a fake by the experts ...