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Document Forgery [Explained]

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“The leading families of Renaissance Italy, the Visconti and the Sforza dukes in Milan, the Estes and Gonzagas in Ferrara and Mantua, or the Medicis in Florence, were certainly willing to pay huge sums of money for authenticated ancient gems: Piero de’ Medici is reported to have remarked that an engraved gemstone was ‘worth more than gold itself.’ They became treasured family heirlooms.” [John Mack, The Art of Small Things]

Because of the market for ancient Roman and Gnostic carved gems, new ones were also being made and sold. They are generally referred to as 'forgeries,' but maybe they were just trendy and less costly, for those nouveau-riche who couldn't afford the real deal and weren't too concerned about authenticity. Regardless, it's interesting to see how these 'forgeries' attempted to emulate the syncretization that was going on in the earlier centuries.

Here are a few examples

Crucified 'Orpheus-Bacchus'

Human-headed scarab with ouroboros

Osiris-Christ

A 24-year-old Kingston, Ont., woman has been sentenced to house arrest for what a judge called a series of lies that included forging nursing credentials that allowed her to treat roughly 200 patients before being found out. Madeline Stenhouse appeared in the Ontario Court of Justice on Tuesday wearing a black suit and glasses. She nodded as Justice Alison Wheeler described her "youthfulness" as a reason to show restraint in sentencing. "Ms. Stenhouses's offending was the product of immaturity in not knowing how to accept or deal with the fact that she failed nursing school," the judge read from her decision.

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People were quick to point out that his "antique" journal looked suspiciously like the kind of thing you could order off of Amazon, Etsy, etc. And it was pretty obvious the journal had been artificially aged.

Wolter backtracked and claimed that well uhhhh actually the journal is new but the information could totally be legitimate, you guys!

Lol. Lmao.

You can read more about it on Jason Colavito's blog:

Everything from shitty copies of the Mona Lisa to archaeological fraud.