Fraud, Fakery and False Business : Rethinking the Shrager versus Dighton 'Old Furniture Case'.
In 1922, Adolphe Shrager having made his fortune during the First World War, approached the London dealer Basil Dighton for advice on purchasing antique furniture. Dighton sold him about five hundred items but shortly afterwards Shrager discovered that one of his 'collector's pieces'...
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London :
Continuum International Pub.,
2011.
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