Word: forgers
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...effort to find out whether or not he is a renowned polo player throws him into a pond, where he encounters the famed Penner duck. During the commencement exercises at the school which, as anticipated, take the form of routine production numbers, a detective looking for a check forger is able to terminate the amnesia victim's feeble efforts to uncover his own identity...
...Franklin (his favorite characters) on the fly leaves of old books. As his skill grew, so did his audacity. To make detection more difficult, most of the Spring forgeries were sent to England and Canada for sale and circulation. Because Britain was still sentimentally fond of the Confederate States, Forger Spring invented a new character, a respectable maiden lady known as Miss Fanny Jackson, only daughter of General '"Stonewall" Jackson. For years Miss Fanny's precarious finances induced her to part with a great flood of letters and manuscripts belonging to her father and Forger Spring...
Died. Warren Wesley Finney, 62, Emporia, Kans. banker, convicted embezzler, father of Bond Forger Ronald Finney (TIME, Aug. 21, 1933, et seq.); by his own hand (pistol); in Emporia. When peace officers came to his summer cabin last week to take him to the penitentiary, Mrs. Finney's plea for "one more hour" was granted. The officers returned to find Warren Finney sprawled on the floor, a bullet hole through both temples, a mirror propped before...
Photomicrographs will show up the imitation every time, when a modern work is faked by a forger using the same kind of pigments as the original painter employed. There are even more dodges conceived by the wily to defraud collectors, but Mr. Laurie shows how science defeats them -- even the ancient dodge of mutilation, in order to give the impression of age. He is a good raconteur, obviously full of the delights connected with his profession, and he tells many an interesting story about forgers like Icilio Federigo Ioni of Sienna, who fumed when an expert refused to look...
...even more blatant forger was discovered in Paris fortnight ago in the person of Professor Andre Mailfert. For years he has lectured about the so-called ''Loire School" of 18th Century provincial furniture of inlaid lemon wood. Its leader, he said, was a certain Jean François Hardy. Hoping to attract attention to the real qualities of his lemon-wood masterpieces. Professor Mailfert deliberately admitted that he had not only invented Cabinetmaker Hardy, but during the past five years had kept a factory of 200 workmen busy turning out the entire product of the "Loire School." Only...