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ON 'FAKES:

DO THEY DO GOOD. TO MANKIND PURCHASERS PSYCHOLOGY. Mr. Baltoo writes in the New Statesman:

ald that the writer valued his opinion HAMBURG

far, moro" aven than sockptance" of his

They always came back, and usual with rach find latter from the editor saying exactly what he thoubht about them and how they betrayed the faults of youth and where the promiss in them lay faste great fun

Another man, I remember, worked it I have never understood why a good admirably upon the customs, the Ameri- can customs, in a matter of painting. He fake was not as valuable as an original. had bought let us say, a corot, signed If a man can reprochiee an article so that He would approach a person well trained not "one man in ten thousand one tell in the art, and get them to paint over the Coros signature another commonplace the difference between the model and the signature, such as Perkins. When that copy, what element is it in the model had well dried, a Corot signature was again printed over on the top of the which gives it its value? I can under Perkins. So far so good. Before be to the New York customs this stand it having a special value, if it is me couldr would have started & cor- an object of peculiar historical interest respondence in the Fress, saying that a For instance, the actual sword which supposed Cerat which was awaited for such and such a collection" (his own) was s Cromwell worn at Naseby would be fake. A man of straw, put up to protest amusing, and one would be annoyed to the Corot, would demand that the ng- He would nature should be scraped. And that one had been palmed off with firmly promise to guarantee the damage. copy. But when it comes to reproduc- The signature would be scraped, Perkins ing a Chippendale chair, or an old frame, appear underneath in the value became negligible, and the duty with it. Then, what does it matter whether you have all at leimire, when the thing was for the form as it was frst put forthy or its gotten Perkins in its turn was scraped off, and the real Corot signature reap exact double1".

peared.

THE PURCHASER.

The truth is that the psychology, the absurd phychology, of the purchaser of originals, has never been dealt with as it should be save in one case, which I know of and which was that of a French Court of Justice

fellow. to it. He took it to a fake fur niture man in Paris, and gave the order for another eleven exactly similar to be made, so that he might have a dining- room set of twelve. When the eleven came, they were quite unlike the original. All sorts of little details were wrong. The man refused to pay, and the thing was taken into court. The decision of the court was that the furniture makes should make a twelfth chair exactly like the other eleven.

FAKE AND ORIGINAL This lack of value in reproductions handicaps one of the very finest efforts of mankind. For me, at least, there is nothing more marvellous than the taking

There was a Frenchman who found of fake bindings, fake furriture, fake

in an old house on the Loire an admir- armour. I had an expert once show metable Francis I., chair. He could get no in a great hall in Sussex exactly how he could tell a piece of fake armour from an original. I have forgotten how he did it; but it know there was something about the structure of the metal on look ing at it through a magnifying glass. But if my pleasure in looking at: annonr is a pleasure in its decoration and shape, what should it matter to me whether I am look

Which reminds me. One of the best ing at a thing new or old! I think weastimes in the world is to take a man Lowe great gratitude to the hosts of men who boasts of the Middle Ages, and of

who have learned how to make counter feits. Their art, has all sorts of qualities over and above the quality of creation. They bring to bear upon a useful illusion & mass of talent which we could never set to work in any other connection, and which is really so prodigious in amoun and quality that I perpetually marvel it. I have known a man who could make you a duplicate of a water colour draw: ing so exact that a man-who had lived with the original all his life could not tell the two apart." You would take him an 1840 picture of the Grange, Littl Biddleton, where dear Grandmama died. He would bring you back that same pic- ture of the Grange, Little Biddeltor where dear Grandmama died, so that you received it with tears of reminiscence. There was the foxed mounting, the plain, rather dull and, simple gilt moulding, with a chip off it here and there ahow- ing dirty white, and even the little gape: at one of the mitred corners. There wa the old stacco house, rather out of draw, ing, the absurd trees, and the abomir abie palo green lawn. It was the thing you had seen on the landing all your life. the thing Aunt Betty had painted. But no. It was a copy. And when you had gazed upon it long enough, and asked to see the copy, the original was produced. TRICKS OF TRADE

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I have talked to some of these great men, but they are careful, and I never learnt very much more than a few tricks of their trade. One of them did tell me of the way in which the minute worn holes are made in imitation of old wood. They are made by shooting at it with fine shot from a certain distance. That's how you get the baphazard distribution. Another man told me how you made the old card tables go, When you had sub- bed the green cloth enough, and spilt a little ink on it and cleaned it off again, and broken a tiny bit out of the inlay, and so forth, the next thing was to make it wobble a little. You cut off the marest trifle from one of the four feet, and in that way it wobbled and was old. Then the purchaser would come along, and if he did not notice the broken little bit of inlay or the dobble, it was up to the acller and maker to point both those things out to him, and to say that wes why he sold it so cheap, and why he was prepared to let it go for seven hundred and fifty pounds. Moreover, if his client desired it, he was game to repair the inlay, and to put a shred of wood on the offending leg, and charge nothing.

GOOD TO MANKIND The people who fake things do good to mankind in yet another manner. They expose the absurdity of labels. There was one man for whom I had a very great admiration, who faked some Words worth sonneta, thirty years ago. or so in the London Press. If I ear not mistaken, the first paper be tone in waw one called the Pall fall Udsetie; but all the fest followed like sheep. He had said he got them from an old Shepherd is, in the Lake Country He lied. They were very bad sonnets. One of them, I remember, ended up with the words, Man liveth not by bread alone, and had something to do with the Corn Laws. They were just the sort of sonnets Wordsworth would have written. So they were a good in the fake line as they were had in the poetry line. He waited until he had thoroughly and wholesomely duped the Pantheists, and collected all their praises; and only then, did he tell them how he had pulled their leg.

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And this reminds me, that related to the great fake department of art is its counter-part, which passes of famous originals as obscure and worthless

hàng 1 de Binding Onderh: We- 1 hr muss & Thus it was the diversion of gay rogues

m my youth to take some few lines out

of the longer poems of Keats and not only send them to a high-brow editor, but

his tender sympathies, therein to the Middle Door of Notre Dame in Paris Show him now carefully the Last Judg ment has been restored after the XVIII. Century Dean and Chapter had cut through it, and how you can hardly tell the old from the new. Then ask him whether he can pick out which of the big statues of the Apostles below are XIIIth: Centary and which are Viollet le Duc He will make a careful selection; and when he has done that you have the pleasure of telling him that they are all

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