Fraud, fakery and false business
Subtitle: rethinking the Shrager versus Dighton 'old furniture case'
By: Abigail Harrison Moore
Publisher: Continuum
Published: 2011
Place of publication: London; New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 223
ISBN-13: 9781441115751
Subjects: Trials (Fraud); Trials, litigation; Antiques; Furniture; Purchasing; Forgeries
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. [205]-215) and index.
Table of contents: title: The emperor's new clothes : Adolph Shrager; title: 'Make us rich' : Dighton and Co. and the market for furniture; title: 'The Faker's bible' : Percy MacQuoid, Herbert Cescinsky and the role of the 'expert'; title: 'Disputed fragments' : Shrager's collection of 'fine furniture'; title: 'Et tu brute?' the verdict.