Word: crofts
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...year ago, appalled by the number of fraudulent Turner water colors that were cropping up in London, the museum's keeper of prints and drawings, Edward Croft-Murray, decided to warn the public by putting on a special show of fake Turners along with some originals. The idea quickly spread to other departments, and even to collectors and connoisseurs on the outside. Art Historian Sir Kenneth Clark contributed a 17th century unicorn horn; Sir Alister Hardy lent his mummified mermaid. From the museum's storerooms came the famed fabricated Piltdown man (TIME, Nov. 30, 1953), an Etruscan sarcophagus...