Show EASY TO DECEIVE INEXPERT l lImItation Imitation of Pictures by Old Mae Mas- tern ten Has Became What Might Be Bo Termed a Business i I c The Tho most common method of ot coUnterfeiting counterfeiting coun counterfeiting coUn- coUn an old picture Is to cover a IL new one painted one painted of at course for the purpose with purpose with a IL certain transparent paste which when exposed to slight heat cracks and ond becomes brown Ifa If It Ifa a B sufficiently vulnerable tint has not been produced the canvas Is washed with a mixture of Tamp p black and Juice Th The picture Is next exposed for tor same some hours to the smoke of a wood fire Ore ont end and the tho loose so soot t having been brushed away It Is rubbed gabbed here and ond there with witha a rag which has been dipped In very dilute sulphuric add acid This operation operation operation opera opera- tion gives a n moldy mo appearance to those parts which have been touched The work Is finally sprinkled by means menns of a toothbrush and a hairpin with minute spots of a solution of ot sepia In gum water to Imitate flyspecks flyspecks flyspecks fly- fly specks and It Is then ready for the market Signatures are Imitated by experts who are known as ns and who devote de' their exclusive attention atten tion to such matters and ond one of these men who died recently confessed to the tor forgery ery of no fewer than signatures of masters alone and ond said he had for years rears ears made a IL large Income by the exercise of ot his art |