Word: forgers
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...NUMBER of angles from which to consider Korean Airlines Flight 007 continues to grow. Forger for the moment questions of who was to blame, who warned or didn't warn whom, how to avoid such tragedies in the future, and so on. Consider this instead...
...Yessir, these are real beauts, all of them done in the inimitable styles of Picasso, Matisse, Modigliani and other early modern masters. Well, to be honest, not quite inimitable styles. The paintings are actually by a clever Hungarian counterfeiter, Elmyr de Hory. Considered the world's premier art forger before his death in 1976, De Hory fooled even museums with his master-fleeces. Eventually De Hory was so famous that he began signing his "fakes," and many of them have found their way into the hands of John Connally, 66. Now in partnership with Forrest Fenn, owner...
...odious power to spellbind an audience has wreaked havoc once again in the furor over the fake diaries [May 16]. Even in death, Hitler has destroyed the reputation and credibility of gullible historians and editors, most notably those at the magazine Stern. All it took was a forger for the Fűhrer to bask in the limelight yet another time. Had the diaries proved authentic, then collectors would have been at one another's throats to own the journals of a man who caused such worldwide suffering...
...wove paper, in which the fibers can be seen by the trained eye. It was used consistently after 1800. Benjamin has seen only two authentic autographs by George Washington written on wove paper. By 1860 wood-pulp paper, easily distinguishable from rag paper, became commonplace. Many a period piece forger has given himself away by using the wrong paper...
...type of pen wielded by a forger can be a giveaway. The quaint quill was used exclusively until 1780, when its successor, the steel pen, came into existence. The difference in writing between the two can be seen under a microscope. Fiber-tipped pens were not used extensively in the U.S. until 1964. Any forger using a pen not common in the period his document purports to derive from risks quick discovery. The modern proliferation of pens, particularly ballpoints, complicates the task of current document analysts, but can provide fresh clues. A ballpoint requires the writer to exert more pressure...