Word: forgers
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...autograph which looked like Composer Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart's, Walter Toscanini, long-nosed son of Conductor Arturo Toscanini, once paid 2,700 lire ($229.50). Shortly Son Walter, a rare-book dealer, learned that the signature was forged, gave Milan police a tip as to who the forger was. They found the rogue, one Tobia Nicotra, in his workshop, busy making autographs of Christopher Columbus, Lorenzo de' Medici, Warren Gamaliel Harding, many another...
...Tardieu called M. Chautemps a liar, an associate of criminals and a forger. He charged him with forging the stub of a Stavisky check for 300,000 francs to make it appear that this sum had been paid to a person called "Tardi," promptly assumed by the Left Press to be Tardieu. For six hours M. Tardieu's scathing attack went on. He produced little or no evidence to support his charges but vilified radical Socialist Leader Chautemps to such an extent as to involve the prestige of the Party and of Boss Herriot. Plainly M. Tardieu was playing...
Conches, long regarded as an expert on the period and now known to have been a forger. About Louis XVI's lack of virility ("In the 18th Century natural things were still regarded with naturalness") Zweig is perfectly explicit, thinks it a strong reason for Louis's inert downfall...
...Dossena sculptures had been sold as original antiques by the great Renaissance artists: Donatello, Verrocchio, Mino da Fiesole, Niccola Pisano, etc., etc. Newspapers, promptly dubbed him "world's greatest forger," and before the excitement was over the notorious Elia Volpi and several other over-shrewd dealers found themselves fined, exposed, and once more in possession of carloads of spurious sculpture. Sculptor Dossena remained within the law. He never sold his work direct to museum or collector, never, so far as investigators could discover, pretended that they were anything but his own work. Nor did he make money. Dealers paid...
...Heard Louisiana's Long flay a Senate investigator into his State rule as a liar, scoundrel, thief and forger...