Cheating and Fraud vi.A-F
·23 min·2 clips
Forger Michael Kaufman was only caught after decades when he sculpted a Roman Emperor with Hessian boots and a full-bottomed wig.
As heard by us
A clinical tour of how antiquities, pottery, papyri, mummies, and jewels can be made to lie.
Gross treats fraud as a catalogue of objects, methods, and tells: scarabs, papyri, pottery, mummies, jewels, and the physical tricks that let a counterfeit pass as something rarer than it is. The appeal is practical as much as historical.
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You want the fraud manual behind the antique market.
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