Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1911-01-31
ART FoRGERiES.
The Foreign Markets Are Flooded
With These Wares.

Italy has always been the classic sol
| for fabrications, but in some depart
ments Holland and Paris run her close
Vienna has a specially for rock crys-
tai and thirteenth century gold WORK
Florence and Lucca for fourteentn
century armOr, London initiates the
pate tendre Of Sevres, ConstantinopIe
makes oriental weapons, Madrid Da-
mascus swords, Dresden sculptured
worries, Aix-la- Chapelle pewter plate,
Berdin Roman potteries Amsterdam
wrought IRON Rotterdam Indian por-
celains. Odessa tiaras and antique
iewelry, while Paris is the chief mart
and clearing house for all these
products.
Italian bronze statuettes. now so
much sought are turned out with dex-
terity and taste in Tuscany. 1t Is said
that it was from one of these foun-
dries there issued the group of virtue
depressing vice, assigned to Clan Bo-
logna, which Is now the choice treas
ure Of a celebrated French collection
Switzerland makes speciality OF
Louis XIV repousse work.
AS for the peasant jewelry. now sc
much bought and sought in Florence
on the old bridge and elsewhere, the
genuine is long ago exhausted, Tor.
latter all. peasants own but limited
stock. 1t all consists Of clever copies
or more often tasteful combinations OF
old designs. The stones, too. respite
their fine designations, are rarely any
thing else but those marvelously clev-
| err tinted rock crystals so ingeniousl.
made in Switzerland and sold by the
| ton if desired.
Venice is the great depot for ebony
inlaid with ivory. and cabinets incrust-
ed with tortoise shell. once its glory
and now in their decadence, are still
the joy of travelling Americans on the
lookout for bargains. Buy if the OBJ
ject pleases you, but do not when you
pay your dollars imagine you are ex-
changing new lamps for old. AS for
old clocks. grandfather or other. there
is not one genuine in hundred. Ware
worries. They are generally bone OF
worse still, celluloid aged by the helT
of tobacco or OF that invaluable hanC
maiden, lcorice juice.
Nor does even glass defy the arti.
Ificcr. In the Museum of st. German
can be seen Roman goblets. their out.
sides inerusted with dirt, whose iri.
descence has been obtained by fish
scales fixed upon their surface. Some,
times real bits OF iridescent glass film:
are transferred upon n modern frame
work. Old German and Bohemian
glass is also excellently copied Ii
Hamburg and Paris. Venice too. has
not forgotten it's traditions and turns
out its own old wares.
Sevres and Dresden innocently help
cd the eounterleiter by selling theil
not yet decorated pieces. if imperfect
for a tritie. On this genuine ground
the forger worked with ease This
traffic has been stopped. Still the
| forger knows no obstacles or over
comes them, and false Sevres and
Dresden are supplied by all dealers
and the purchaser rarely has the mi
mute knowledge that will save him. In
the eighteenth century oriental porce-
lains were openly made in England
and Holland and sent to China for
decoration, when they returned as real
China porcelain. or the reverse proc
ess obtained. The porcelain was made
in China and decorated in what was
presumed to be the Chinese style in
Europe. Paris at the present moment
lmakes and exports old. China porce-
flain, and many tourist who buys Q
find at Hongkong or Shanghai merely
l brings back, Goals to Newcastle. HhO-
dian plates are made near Paris In alb