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... author to include a highly useful chapter on faking, which is frequently resorted to in order to make up sets of Chippendale or Hepplewhite dining-chair There is a warning against the more insidious kind of faking, such as the improvement of simple pieces ...
... THE ART OF DECEPTION COUNTRY LIFE-JUNE 2, 1977 FAKES AND FORGERIES By FRANK DAVIS 1-PLASTER BUST OF THE BAVARIAN DIPLOMAT, GRAF VON JENISON, BY GIOVANNI BASTIANINI (1830-68). The only work of Bastianini's in the Victoria and Albert Museum that does not ...
... over 52 The tension between these two fake phone-in, are less comic or sub- retired star who became a princi- minutes, its poignancy struggled gives the show its liveliness, but versive than they think. They expose pal in 1966. to dominate its longueurs ...
... Vcrmcers. The outstanding thing about this case is the way in which the greatest critics and connoisseurs of the clay were exposed to ridicule and contempt. It was in art what the Piltclown i\Jan was in science. H ere on my shelves is 3,000 YEARS OF DECEPTION ...
... for chalky or other heavily lime-rich soils, nor for wet soils, although it appreciates moisture and is tolerant of fairly exposed, windy sites. On dry soils, the fairly fastgrowing Colorado White fir, Abies concolor, with jade bluegreen needles, would ...
... U O THE ART OF DETECTING FAKES is an amusing experience to walk through the galleries of the Briti h Museum at dead of night carrying portable ultra-violet equipment, said Dr. H . ]. P lenderleith in a recent address on fakes and forgeries in museums ...
... and inexpensive enough. The article is first made of copper and then electro-plated, some of the edges being le ft bare, exposing the copper to view, for the deception of the unwary buyer. \\'here the troubl ed conscience of the dealer will not permi ...
... w.ls my fortune to ,pend at the Agricultural Hall. Toe fact is that t•imming, approaching pe• ilously near to the verge of faking, has reached a far more serious develop· ment than I could ha\e \;elieved to be possib!e, and has certainly attained a pitch ...
... decoration, and which lacked the maker and date marks applied to other materials. 2-A selection of fake and reproduction 19th- Perhaps the earliest-known fake 'antique' glassware was made on Murano century glassware. Glass was relatively easy to make and ...
... choice for the floor of your home, advises CATHERINE MILNER C arpets are not top of everyone's list of modern evils-indeed fake wood laminate or plastic floor tiles might score higher. But, if you learn a little more, the truth is frightening-the wrong ...
... usually valueless, junk. Each year I have been to the brocante, and, indeed, at almost every brocante, there are the year's fakes. No one, seemingly, is disturbed by their abundance and similarity. One year almost every vendor offered one of those expanding ...
... too, that it is a common practice in a coun try so near to us as Ireland to fake up and to remanufacture butter which has grown stale from being unsold at the market, and to expose it once again in the shop H.eaders of our pages may possibly remember the ...