The Gentle Art of Faking

he Collector, the Dealer, and the Faker, supported by minor but not less interesting characters, such as

id his proper surroundings, and with the correct local colouring, so to speak, and his critic may perchance find some slight modicum of excuse for him. Beside him stand the Im

his career through the ages in his appropriate surroundings, and compare the met

tique, influenced no doubt by the fact that though possibly12 the imitation and the original may possess equal merit, the one is handicapped by modernity, the other is hallowed by age. The inexperienced and unwary collector is in most cases the innoc

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