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  • noun Plural form of forgery.

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Examples

  • Cha2}. 22S An Act to incohpouate the title forgeries prevention COMPANY.

    Acts and resolves passed by the General Court 1663

  • Again, putting aside the modern Chinese coin forgeries, which indeed do exist although the extent, type and quality is a different matter, the fact remains that the basic premise of your “source” is just simply wrong.

    NCS Conserves Coins Recovered from the Steamship New York : Coin Collecting News 2009

  • Note, that the Chinese do not make their forgeries from the same caret of gold or silver as the originals.

    NCS Conserves Coins Recovered from the Steamship New York : Coin Collecting News 2009

  • One of the characteristics of forgeries is that they are much easier to detect 50 years on.

    Reading Lord of the Flies today 2005

  • One of the characteristics of forgeries is that they are much easier to detect 50 years on.

    Archive 2005-04-01 2005

  • One of the characteristics of forgeries is that they are much easier to detect 50 years on.

    April 2005 2005

  • “Whatever happened to those niger forgeries is a better question?”

    Think Progress » Libby to be indicted tommorow. 2005

  • In 1971, art history doctoral candidate and now director of the Department of Painting and Sculpture at the New York's Museum of Modern Art, Kirk Varnedoe, organized a show of authentic and counterfeit drawings by French sculptor Auguste Rodin called "Rodin Drawings, True and False" at the National Gallery of Art in Washington, D.C. The show highlighted 132 actual drawings by the artist and 28 intentional forgeries from the collections of a number of museums.

    Daniel Grant: What Happens to Confiscated Art 'Fakes'? Daniel Grant 2010

  • In 1971, art history doctoral candidate and now director of the Department of Painting and Sculpture at the New York's Museum of Modern Art, Kirk Varnedoe, organized a show of authentic and counterfeit drawings by French sculptor Auguste Rodin called "Rodin Drawings, True and False" at the National Gallery of Art in Washington, D.C. The show highlighted 132 actual drawings by the artist and 28 intentional forgeries from the collections of a number of museums.

    Daniel Grant: What Happens to Confiscated Art 'Fakes'? Daniel Grant 2010

  • In 1971, art history doctoral candidate and now director of the Department of Painting and Sculpture at the New York's Museum of Modern Art, Kirk Varnedoe, organized a show of authentic and counterfeit drawings by French sculptor Auguste Rodin called "Rodin Drawings, True and False" at the National Gallery of Art in Washington, D.C. The show highlighted 132 actual drawings by the artist and 28 intentional forgeries from the collections of a number of museums.

    Daniel Grant: What Happens to Confiscated Art 'Fakes'? Daniel Grant 2010

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