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Show PEOPLE ARE FOOLED. Denver Times: There are nearly one hundred paintings In this country coun-try which bear the name of Corot. Perhaps 10 per. cent of them were really re-ally painted by the great Frenchman. There are about tho same number of alleged works by Millet, with probably prob-ably the same proportion of frauds. It is said by those who have some claim to' know, that the real Bouge-reaus Bouge-reaus In this country are yet fewer in proportion to the fakes; and when one gets farther back to some of the older "old masters," the genuine paintings are utterly swamped in the flood of "antiques made to order." Nor js it only in paintings that the faker gets In his work. Every article that is prized for its supposed associations associ-ations or age, rather than for its Intrinsic In-trinsic merits, Is the subject of counterfeit? coun-terfeit? innumerable. The scarabs and amulets which peBtcred tourists buy at the foot of the pyramids aro not Egyptian. They probably were manufactured man-ufactured In England., At one tlmo there were two manufactories In Birmingham Bir-mingham which drove a thriving trade in the production ot "Waterloo relics;" and, while Waterloo is a bit out it date, the factories probably have changed their output slightly and still thrive. Tho museum of the Louvre, one of the most celebrated in Europe, was taken in by a faker, and paid a fancy price for an alabaster bust by ono of the "old masters," which was really mado and sold by a humble Italian sculptor for Just what it was, and "aged" by the faker who took in the Louvre. Some of the methods of theso "antique" "an-tique" fakers, as recently described, are interesting enough to repay a bit of study. PU'tures painted by a cheap artist at five franc3 a day form tho staple of the trade. These are then supplied with "signatures," with cracks, by being baked in an oven, with fly specks, made by standing at a little distance and flirting on a special mixture vlth a brush. They aro touched with the mould, not of time, but of bacteriological chemistry. They are put out "to wet nuree," that Is, hung In the quarters of some peasant or mechanic who Is carefully prlmod with the story he mu6t tell and tho price he must ask, and are there discovered dis-covered by the searching collector, as slsled by the faker. Whatever test tho collector has at hand, he may be sure the faker has anticipated it, and made ready for it, |