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Fakes, Frauds and Phonies episodes
- Keating and his ticking time bombs!
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Tom Keating had a special surprise for the unwary buyers of his forgeries!
6 min - The two Johns, Myatt and Drewe!
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Clever deception, but not clever enough for Scotland Yard!
24 min - Can you fool all the people, all the time? Maybe.
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Hebborn, master forger, tried to fool all the people, all the time.. Did he succeed? Find out in this fascinating episode of Fakes, Frauds and Phonies.
26 min - The Phony Count and His Fake Goya: An LAPD story!
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A phony Hungarian count steals a painting from an old couple, and resurfaces years later. The Los Angeles Police save the day!
13 min - de Hory, the king of Ibiza!
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de Hory, the man who perpetually re-invented himself: he was the subject of a book by Clifford Irving (yes, the author of the fake Howard Hughes diaries) and a film by Orson Wells (one of his least interesting productions, a documentary titled F for Fake)
12 min - Maskat and his medieval turkey...
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The medieval frescoes looked amazingly fresh and new...mostly because they were fresh and new!
10 min - van Meegeren, crook or traitor?
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van Meegeren has to choose between selling a real Vermeer to Goering, and suffering the post-war consequences...or just admitting the he's a forger and get a slap on the wrist?
8 min - van Meegeren bakes a batch of Vermeers!
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van Meegeren creates "authentic" craquielures with a secret recipe!
5 min - van Meegeren reduix...and in deep trouble!
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Accused of selling a Dutch cultural treasure to Hermann Goering, how will van Meegeren avoid the hangman's noose?
20 min - A Nazi, a forger and a contentious Vermeer!
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How Han van Meegeren fooled the world's greatest expert on Vermeer, and pulled a fast one on Hermann Goering!
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A fascinating and often amusing look at art crime!