Title: Fraud, fakery and false business : rethinking the Shrager versus Dighton 'old furniture case' /
Authors: Harrison-Moore, Abigail
Publisher: Continuum,
Year: 2011
Subjects: Shrager, Adolph.; Dighton, B. L. Trials, litigation, etc.; Trials (Fraud) Great Britain.; Antiques Forgeries Great Britain.; Furniture Purchasing Great Britain.
Contents: The emperor's new clothes : Adolph Shrager -- 'Make us rich' : Dighton and Co. and the market for furniture -- 'The Faker's bible' : Percy MacQuoid, Herbert Cescinsky and the role of the 'expert' -- 'Disputed fragments' : Shrager's collection of 'fine furniture' -- 'Et tu brute?' the verdict.