ANTIQUE “FAKES’
MUSEUM IN GERMANY. BERLIN, April 11. Ys a warning to private collectors ■he Na'ural Historv Society at Nuremberg is holding an exhibition of “faked” antiques from tho collection of the SO-year-old Munich painter Gabriel Max', who bought them for considerable sums of money in the bel:er that they were genuine. Among the collection are bones o eave-bears, which had been passed off as tools used in the Stone Age, and “relics of the Bronze Age” which were in reality made of copper-wire and sheet brass. Some of these impos_ tures were manufactured in tens ot thousands. To demonstrate the difference between the “fakes” ami the genuine antiques, the society have installed in one room a collection of genuine relics of antiquitV;
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Wanganui Chronicle, Volume 79, Issue 109, 9 May 1936, Page 9
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