Fraud, Fakery and False Business: Rethinking the Shrager versus Dighton 'Old Furniture Case'
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| Beschreibung: | Cover; Half-title; Title; Copyright; Dedication; Contents; Acknowledgements; List of Illustrations; Prologue: 'New Furniture for Old'; 1 Th e Emperor's New Clothes: Adolph Shrager; 2 'Make Us Rich': Dighton and Co. and the Market for Furniture; 3 'Th e Faker's Bible': Percy MacQuoid, Herbert Cescinsky and the Role of the 'Expert'; 4 'Disputed Fragments': Shrager's Collection of 'Fine Furniture'; 5 'Et tu Brute?' Th e Verdict; Notes; Bibliography; Index In 1922, Adolphe Shrager having made his fortune during the First World War, approached the London dealer Basil Dighton for advice on purchasing antique furniture. Dighton sold him about five hundred items but shortly afterwards Shrager discovered that one of his 'collector's pieces' was judged to be a fake and grossly over-priced, and he sued. The trial, held in early 1923, became a cause celebre, but it can be viewed as a case study of a much wider set of social and cultural concerns: the fact that Shrager lost both the first trial and the appeal, despite demonstrating on numerous occasions |
| Beschreibung: | 1 Online-Ressource (241 p.) |
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| spelling | Harrison-Moore, Abigail Verfasser (DE-588)131862774 aut Fraud, Fakery and False Business Rethinking the Shrager versus Dighton 'Old Furniture Case' London Continuum International Pub. 2011 1 Online-Ressource (241 p.) txt rdacontent c rdamedia cr rdacarrier Cover; Half-title; Title; Copyright; Dedication; Contents; Acknowledgements; List of Illustrations; Prologue: 'New Furniture for Old'; 1 Th e Emperor's New Clothes: Adolph Shrager; 2 'Make Us Rich': Dighton and Co. and the Market for Furniture; 3 'Th e Faker's Bible': Percy MacQuoid, Herbert Cescinsky and the Role of the 'Expert'; 4 'Disputed Fragments': Shrager's Collection of 'Fine Furniture'; 5 'Et tu Brute?' Th e Verdict; Notes; Bibliography; Index In 1922, Adolphe Shrager having made his fortune during the First World War, approached the London dealer Basil Dighton for advice on purchasing antique furniture. Dighton sold him about five hundred items but shortly afterwards Shrager discovered that one of his 'collector's pieces' was judged to be a fake and grossly over-priced, and he sued. The trial, held in early 1923, became a cause celebre, but it can be viewed as a case study of a much wider set of social and cultural concerns: the fact that Shrager lost both the first trial and the appeal, despite demonstrating on numerous occasions Shrager, Adolph / Trials, litigation, etc Dighton, B. L. / (Basil Lewis) / Trials, litigation, etc Recht Dighton, B.L. (Basil Lewis) / Trials, litigation, etc Law Trials (Fraud) / Great Britain Antiques / Forgeries / Great Britain Furniture / Purchasing / Great Britain Großbritannien http://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&scope=site&db=nlebk&db=nlabk&AN=412557 Verlag Volltext |
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