Fakes, Forgers And Phoneys: Famous Scams And Scamps

Fakes, Forgers And Phoneys: Famous Scams And Scamps by Magnus Magnusson


ISBN
9781845961909
Published
Binding
Hardcover
Pages
416
Dimensions
162 x 240 x 38mm

In 'Fakes, Forgers and Phoneys', Magnus Magnusson masterfully explores the shadowy world of deception and counterfeiting. Through the 16 case studies in this intriguing collection, the author reveals:

- how a house-painter cum art-restorer fooled the art world and became a national TV celebrity in 1979;
- the identity of the person who fabricated the ‘missing link’ human skull that was discovered in a gravel pit at Piltdown in Essex in 1912;
- how a mystery man known by the unlikely name of George Psalmanazar fooled the London literary world in 1704 with his lurid accounts of cannibalism and polygamy in his native island of Formosa (Taiwan);
- how an obese cockney adventurer resident in Australia succeeded in passing himself off as a slim young English aristocrat who had disappeared ten years earlier in 1854 (‘The Tichborne Claimant’); and
- how a suave London conman inveigled a struggling artist to become involved in the greatest British art scam of the twentieth century.

'Fakes, Forgers And Phoneys' is the essential guide to the most ingenious art and literary forgeries, archaeological frauds, imposters and hoaxers in the world.
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