A sixth-grade photograph, signed "To Grandma" but never mailed, rests on a desk beside a certificate that reads "Most Improved in Spanish" and algebra homework done in No. 2 pencil.
Her grandmother, Pamella Truman, stood on the porch with odd mementos from her granddaughter's life, including a photograph from elementary school and a certificate of honor that read: "Wendy's Employee of the Month.
With his nephew, he walked toward the office for unclaimed death certificates and past a billboard that read, "Hand in hand, we'll build Iraq together".
They posted a sign that read "Fake Banksy" and provided each buyer with a legally notarized "Certificate of Inauthenticity".
We were sitting in his office amid his many framed medical certificates and a poster of an illuminated lighthouse that read: "Success doesn't come to you.
There's also bountiful energy, a vivid imagination, real sex appeal and two-thirds of a name left of one that read Jonathan Parker Millsap on his birth certificate.
Among the cheap gifts promoted on posters in malls are a phony "certificate of star adoption" and a jar of jam with a paste-on label that reads "Holiday preserves, from the kitchen of...".
By then, the only evidence left of Mr. Zhao's 12 years in the United States were bills, ashes and a death certificate that his brother could not read.
I was shown Omar's report cards, his birth certificate from a hospital on the Mount of Olives, and a high-school certificate of graduation that read, "The school administration certifies that Mr. Omar Kamel Said Al Khatib was a student in 1980-81.
One, titled "In 1993 Rirkrit Tiravanija made a SCI-FI artwork for me," reproduces a text signed by Mr. Tiravanija that reads, "This is a certificate of authenticity for all the things that Philippe Parreno and I have done and will do together".
