Word: spuriousness
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...incident at Philadelphia aroused much editorial comment in the press. Said the New York Tribune : " Fancy Henry Corbett Lodge! . . . The idea of spurious Cabots is as disturbing as the thought of counterfeit antiques in the Metropolitan Museum...
...works specified by M. Vigoroux as spurious include 1) A ceramic piece attributed to Lucca della Robbia, 15th Century Florentine sculptor, sold to an official of the Metropolitan for $3,000, and "not worth a sou." (The Metropolitan contains only one della Robbia?a terra cotta bas-relief entitled Prudence, bought in 1921 under the bequest of Joseph Pulitzer.) 2) A 15th Century statue of St. Paul, sold to Assistant Curator Breck, of the Metropolitan, for $3,000. 3) A bas-relief group, Les Lansquenets (a former type of German footsoldier; the figures were called "devils" by the people...
...worth 150,000 francs can be reproduced-so accurately, perhaps, as to pass undetected by experts. It is admitted that it would be difficult for a fake to pass the experts of the Louvre or the Metropolitan, but experts differ among themselves as to what is genuine, what is spurious. The inquiry is raised: "If experts cannot tell the difference, what are we paying for, age or beauty...
...Millions of revenue stamps, postage stamps, whisky, beer and champagne labels, bonded liquor seals, and doctor's prescription blanks were also discovered. Secret Service men say that their prisoners have gulled the trusting public for over $1,000,000 in crooked currency and over $10,000,000 in spurious stamps, labels and seals in the past year...
...fortnight ago young John Wanamaker II, son of Rodman Wanamaker (President of the New York and Philadelphia Wanamaker stores) was sentenced to six months in a French prison-charged with having signed spurious checks at Deauville...