Through an ingenious reading of Mary's letters, John Guy proves much of the evidence against her to be forged, and reveals the identity of the forger: William Cecil, the ruthless adviser to Queen Elizabeth I of England.The same Elizabeth signed Mary's death warrant in 1587.
On the other hand, the objects show an extraordinary variety of forms of corrosion; a forger would have needed to be extraordinarily diligent and energetic to tailor-make all these effects.
The fury and embarrassment caused by the exposure of a forger suggests this is not so.Expensive pictures are primarily what economists call positional goods things that are valuable largely because other people can't have them.
Whether you look at his position at home or abroad, Mr Blair that gregarious forger of coalitions, pitcher of "big tents", "pivotal" statesman, navigator of third ways and builder of transatlantic bridges appears suddenly alone.
AS A forger, Konrad Kujau began modestly, getting free meals with fake luncheon vouchers.
And for those deemed too precious for permanent display, copies that would make the greatest forger envious might one day be created.Analyse thisThe conservation laboratory of the National Gallery, in London, would not look out of place in a university chemistry department.
Alexander Dobrindt, general secretary of Bavaria's Christian Social Union, part of Germany's ruling coalition, says the ECB risks becoming "the currency forger of Europe".To a greater extent than outsiders might think, Mr Draghi shares Mr Weidmann's concerns.
A forger usually works for the surface effect and is not concerned with the internal structures.
The 20th-century art forger is far better equipped and much more knowledgeable than his predecessor.
Occasionally a forger appears with a certain specious glamour like Constantine Simonides (1824 67), a Greek adventurer who varied his trade in perfectly genuine manuscripts with the sale of strange concoctions of his own.
More commonplace is the forgery encountered in the case of the Edinburgh forger A.H. ("Antique") Smith, who was responsible for forgeries of Robert Burns, Sir Walter Scott, Mary Stuart, and other persons from Scottish literature and history a feat that ultimately earned him 12 months' imprisonment.
