An old desk passed off as a Civil War memorial has been exposed as a fraud thanks to a dogged antiques journalist and a pair of "smoking gun" photographs. A civil war-era secretary desk acquired by ...

Appraisal: Forgery by Eugene Field, Jr., ca. 1920, in Vintage Portland. Watch Selby Kiffer's appraisal of a Forgery by Eugene Field, Jr., ca. 1920, in Vintage Portland.

Inside Out explores how easy it is to be tricked into paying big money for a ‘genuine’ fake. Everyone has been caught out at some time – including our top antiques forgery expert – but here he ...

An Israeli antiquities dealer acquitted in a high-profile forgery case last year says the trial ruined his reputation and is suing the Israeli government for more than $3 million. Robert Deutsch along ...

A JURY in the trial of a Hampshire antique collector charged with fraud has retired to consider its verdict. Allan Formhals is charged with a total of 15 counts of fraud for selling books with ...

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