Word: spuriousness
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Wilmington. Henry F. du Pont bought another Lowestoft service (decorated with ships) last winter, found it spurious, returned it to the Anderson Galleries, Manhattan." I have to inform you that this statement is entirely erroneous...
Wilmington. Henry F. du Pont bought another Lowestoft service (decorated with ships) last winter, found it spurious, returned it to the Anderson Galleries, Manhattan...
Buffalo. William Matthews Kecking, director of the Albright Art Gallery in Buffalo, reported to New York police last week that the pernicious William Wilbur J. Cooke had sold two spurious Stuart Washingtons for $21,000 each, one to Seymour Horace Knox, banker-poloist of Buffalo and East Aurora, N. Y.; one to Walstein C. Findlay of Kansas City, Mo. Mr. Findlay fortunately had paid but $5,000 cash when the fraud was discovered...
...scare of "fake" was thrown into the art world a few days ago when the Boston newspapers revealed that the Boston Museum of Fine Arts had been fleeced of nearly $100,000 for spurious paintings among which was a highly prized canvas supposed to have been by El Greco. As responsibility for acceptance to the Fogg Museum rests with a large jury rather than with a single man, the possibilities of such accident are reduced to a minimum...
...some who are wise think their promise is spurious...