Salt Lake Telegram | 1906-07-27 | Page 8 | Spurious Art is Foisted on Public

SPURIOUS ART IS FOISTED ON PUBLIC NEW YORK, July 27. Charles E. Read, curator of mediaeval art objects ob-jects in the British museum, who arrived ar-rived here yesterday , from Liverpool, had this to say regarding spurious works of art that are sometimes foisted upon visitors in Europe: "Paris is full of such things. They are madethere by men who make ' business of creating such shams and selling thcm'at high prices. These spurious spu-rious art treasures are cleverly built, and to one not -familiar with the genuine gen-uine article they look rather tempting. But at one glance a curator can tell thev are frauds. Indeed, on the voyage from Liverpool Liver-pool two persons showed me several purchases they had made and asked mv opinion. They insisted on knowing. know-ing. Painful though it was, I was forced to tell them the objects of their purchases were valueless.