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#forgeries — Public Fediverse posts

Live and recent posts from across the Fediverse tagged #forgeries, aggregated by home.social.

  1. Hyperallergic: Can an Artist’s DNA Help Detect Forgeries?. “Scientists working with the nonprofit Leonardo da Vinci DNA Project, for which I provide legal advice as an intellectual property attorney, have been collaborating for a decade on developing methods to do non-invasive testing of the works of Leonardo and other artists to assemble a ‘biome profile’ that would identify the artist.”

    https://rbfirehose.com/2025/07/16/hyperallergic-can-an-artists-dna-help-detect-forgeries/

  2. Spotted a fair quantity of fake 1920s–30s wood engravings by contemporary forger Earl M. Washington (now in prison) at a shop in Dearborn, MI, priced at $50–125. He'd been at it for decades & first attracted negative attention from the Escher estate
    japecake @japecake #fakes #forgeries #artforgeries

  3. There‘s a bunch of book thieves going around prestigious #libraries and swapping #Pushkin #FirstEditions for (so the library officials say) high quality facsimiles. The @stabi_berlin
    has been targeted , also national libraries in Poland and the Baltic states.
    It’s a wild story, and the forgers’ skills seem to be very remarkable.
    #artcrimes #russianliterature #forgeries #antiquarianbooks
    thetimes.co.uk/article/a79836a

  4. There‘s a bunch of book thieves going around prestigious #libraries and swapping #Pushkin #FirstEditions for (so the library officials say) high quality facsimiles. The @stabi_berlin
    has been targeted , also national libraries in Poland and the Baltic states.
    It’s a wild story, and the forgers’ skills seem to be very remarkable.
    #artcrimes #russianliterature #forgeries #antiquarianbooks
    thetimes.co.uk/article/a79836a

  5. There‘s a bunch of book thieves going around prestigious #libraries and swapping #Pushkin #FirstEditions for (so the library officials say) high quality facsimiles. The @stabi_berlin
    has been targeted , also national libraries in Poland and the Baltic states.
    It’s a wild story, and the forgers’ skills seem to be very remarkable.
    #artcrimes #russianliterature #forgeries #antiquarianbooks
    thetimes.co.uk/article/a79836a

  6. There‘s a bunch of book thieves going around prestigious #libraries and swapping #Pushkin #FirstEditions for (so the library officials say) high quality facsimiles. The @stabi_berlin
    has been targeted , also national libraries in Poland and the Baltic states.
    It’s a wild story, and the forgers’ skills seem to be very remarkable.
    #artcrimes #russianliterature #forgeries #antiquarianbooks
    thetimes.co.uk/article/a79836a

  7. There‘s a bunch of book thieves going around prestigious #libraries and swapping #Pushkin #FirstEditions for (so the library officials say) high quality facsimiles. The @stabi_berlin
    has been targeted , also national libraries in Poland and the Baltic states.
    It’s a wild story, and the forgers’ skills seem to be very remarkable.
    #artcrimes #russianliterature #forgeries #antiquarianbooks
    thetimes.co.uk/article/a79836a

  8. Columbus Letter Beloved by Thieves and Forgers Sells for $3.9 Million

    A rare pamphlet about Christopher Columbus’s first voyage was auctioned by Christie’s, which said it had taken pains to ensure this one wasn’t forged or stolen.

    NY Times article (unlocked):
    nytimes.com/2023/10/19/arts/de

    #columbus #letters #thefts #forgeries #bookhistory

  9. #NewPaper #Paleontology #FossilTurtles #Forgeries

    Scheyer, T.M., Oliveira, G.R., Romano, P.S.R. et al. A forged ‘chimera’ including the second specimen of the protostegid sea turtle Santanachelys gaffneyi and shell parts of the pleurodire Araripemys from the Lower Cretaceous Santana Group of Brazil. Swiss J Palaeontol 142, 6 (2023). doi.org/10.1186/s13358-023-002