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Art and Antiques on the Canadian Roadshow Tours:

Fake, Faux or Just Fiction?

 

 

The most commonly faked antique items we see on the Roadshow tours fall into two very distinct categories:

 

Counterfeit Works of art or antiquities designed to deceive.


A deliberate deception, often with fraudulent intent.

 

OR: Reproductions or facsimiles. Sometimes misrepresented, but more often misinterpreted and then believed to be the real thing

 

 

Here's a list of the most common fakes of type, art and antiques that we see?

 

Category 1 - Fake Paintings and Fake Prints

Number 1-  Fake Pablo Ruiz Y Picasso and Salvador Dali prints, paintings and drawings

Number 2- Fake Autographs, and autographed celebrity photos etc

Number 3- Fake Marc Chagall / Joan Mirò paintings and prints

Number 4- Fake Gustav Courbet, paintings

Number 5- Fake Eastern European Icons

Number 6- Fake Nicolas Poussin or other old masters

Number 7- Fake Edgar Degas- Fake Vincent Van Gogh & Fake Thomas Gainsborough, Fake Joseph Mallord William Turner paintings

Number 8- Fake Barbizon school and Fake Dutch paintings


Number 9- Fake John Constable Paintings

  

Number10- FakeMiniature Portraits form Germany and Fake Hand coloured Prints and Fake hand Drawn Maps

 

Category 2 - Antiques and collectibles

 

Number 1- Fake Limoges Porcelain

Number 2- Fake Scrimshaw ( Fake Nautical folk art)

Number 3- Fake Gallé Glass

Number 4- Fake Netsukes / Ivory and jade

Number 5- Fake Capodimonte & Fake porcelain and china

Number 6- Fake Cast banks / Fake Tin Toys

Number 7- Fake Nippon hand painted china

Number 8- Fake Sèvres Porcelain


Number 9- Fake Meissen Porcelain

Number10- Fake Moorcroft

 

 

 

Popular Misnomers:

 

The most commonly misinterpreted and publicly misunderstood items by the general public :

 

Violins - The Stradivarius Myth.

 

Labels on pictures and plaques on frames

 

The values of Bibles and Books

 

Ancient Artifacts

 

Wooden "faux" Antique Horses, prams and toys

 

The value of old coins and medals

 

Autographs and signatures

 

 

 

 

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MILITARY MEDALS AND ORDERS
A FAKE LOWRY GEORGE TINWORTH - DOULTON POTTER GEORGIAN SILVER
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FRANK MOSS BENNETT - ARTIST BATTLE FOR CHRYSLERS FARM HISTORY OF THE DOUGLAS MOTORCYCLE
AMERICAN INDIAN PEACE MEDALS
CORNELIUS KRIEGHOFF - CANADIAN SCHONFELDER VIOLINS HISTORICA SCHOLASTICA  PETRUS COMESTORE
AMERICAN CONGRESSIONAL MEDAL
GEORGES BARBIER - ART DECO STRADIVARIUS VIOLINS PETER POPPELMAN GERMAN SCULPTOR
WEXFORD CIVIL WAR MEDAL
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JOHN WILKINSON TRADE TOKEN
LAWREN HARRIS - CANADIAN POLISH PRISONER OF WAR PENNY BLACK STAMP
DAYS MILLS BUTTER MEDAL
CONSTANCE MARKIEVICZ - IRISH ARTIST EATONS PUNKIN HEAD
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