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<p>[QUOTE="NewStyleKing, post: 7023286, member: 106483"]But fakes are collected themselves! Becker forgeries are one example, Slavey another. The artwork forgeries of Tom Keating and John Myatt are collected. This is of course,provenance gone mad.Crime stories are popular and always have been and always will be so relics of the notorious have a cachet, a link to a crime and a person whilst ancient coins are by an anonymous slave not the persons name emblazoned on the coin, unless the die artist has sneaked himself unobtrusively in like Botticelli as an "anonymous" figure in a scene.</p><p>Anyway you get my point.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>
[QUOTE="NewStyleKing, post: 7023286, member: 106483"]But fakes are collected themselves! Becker forgeries are one example, Slavey another. The artwork forgeries of Tom Keating and John Myatt are collected. This is of course,provenance gone mad.Crime stories are popular and always have been and always will be so relics of the notorious have a cachet, a link to a crime and a person whilst ancient coins are by an anonymous slave not the persons name emblazoned on the coin, unless the die artist has sneaked himself unobtrusively in like Botticelli as an "anonymous" figure in a scene. Anyway you get my point.[/QUOTE]
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