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Excerpt from The Gentle Art of Faking: A History of the Methods of Producing Imitations and Spurious Works of Art From the Earliest Times Up to the Present DayIn analysing the Faker one must dissociate him from the common forger, his semi-artistic vocation places him quite apart from the ordinary counterfeiter, he must be studied amid his proper surroundings, and with the correct local colouring, so to speak, and his critic may perchance find ...

Excerpt from A Modern Antique: A Florentine Story After a moment of thought he observed, Strange how even letters hidden in plain envelopes have a certain physiognomy. And no doubt the three pieces of white paper scribbled with the address had different characters. The first envelope, for instance, was small, and the stamp, placed on the reverse Side where the missive is sealed, seemed to mount guard over the inviolability of the secret. A...

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