FORGERS WHO FOOL GOVERNMENTS.

Taranaki Daily News, Volume LII, Issue 146, 17 July 1909, Page 3

FORGERS WHO FOOL GOVERNMENTS.

It made plain, in the course of the hearing of a remit lawsuit, that .Dresden and Sevres 'china can :be imitated .so suecessiully as to deceive not ,cnly the ordinary collector, hut experts Its Well; and the same thing implies other antiques. liven governments have been ''taken m' upon occasion. Our own British lliiscum contains more than one exhibit the genuineness of which is open to very gia\e doubt (says a writer in Pearson's Weekly], 'i'VKN 4 x AI'i'KAJtAXCE OF AGE. I lie l aris louvre purchased for £4OllO about six yclirs ngo a aupposvd Saitaphcnics tiara. It turned out to be a modern forgery for the most part, a Finall strip of old from an embossed antique cup having bee:i welded o" ' l 50 as tu au 'il'Peiinmee ■Rare lioman and Groc.y coins are consul,illy being forged and palmed oil' .upon nmvary collectors both in Hn.»land anil America. In fact, there are re'"iilui' | workshops established ill Paris' fop the | perpetration of this particular brand of roguery, where the dies are cut bv skilled 'workmen, who are paid as much |,Hh .U a day for their services. Genuine liielaj IS, Of course, used for the counter, e , and 1,1 order to do awav with the .appearance of newness they are "sweated ill small stc,.| boxes with roiHi illU'riors. ° AiIOXG THE l''l!E\i('ll XATIUNYUJ ('<»M,E(TKI\, .up., vases, and sail cc ill's are made at Turin, „nd so skillully as to niipo.se upon the most war,-. A supposedly lia.. specimen of aucieiit in Hie Hvucli nulimnU i*t>ll:»eticn "hen being Cleaned recently, was found <> m» liicii-ly a modern wim» th«U MM 'lx'i'n l.ihorioiislv ooviMYtl. 'sf;i|<. |,y scale, with the peculiar imdvi-ccut li| m fm ' ms "I"" 1 huig-'bnried Ktriw/an

A tew years ago S u<piei„u was aroused amongst art denier* and others owim' t" the unusual number of allceel e-nl" Italian ivory Iriptycl.cs that ( ,u„e upon he market fro,,, n0,,,. k„ew whence, l-il'cy proved to In, v.. be,.,, all ,„:„!,■ | ~! one man out. of f,,-sil s ri.,:, ,„„„,„„,,„ I .tUSks the peculiar yellowness of which •lent il*lf perfectly to the ~a ■( a fraud whicl, w,,s perpetrated. l '" Ul " 1 ' 1 '