Fake Collection

U-2 spy plane with fictitious NASA markings, USA, 1960. Creator: NASA
U-2 spy plane with fictitious NASA markings, USA, 1960. After Francis Gary Powers was shot down over the Soviet Union during a CIA spy flight on May 1, 1960

RECRUIT, 1917 or 1918. Creator: Bain News Service
RECRUIT, 1917 or 1918. The U.S.S. Recruit, a fake battleship built in Union Square, New York City by the Navy to recruit seamen and sell Liberty Bonds during World War I

Camouflaging RECRUIT, 1917 or 1918. Creator: Bain News Service
Camouflaging RECRUIT, 1917 or 1918. A worker camouflaging a lattice mast on the the U.S.S. Recruit, a fake battleship built in Union Square

Virgin and Child with saints, 20th-century painting on 14th-century antiphonary. Creator: Venetian Forger
Virgin and Child with saints, 20th-century painting on 14th-century antiphonary. Miniature - detail

The Celebrated Dealer Nishimura Exposing an Art Forger, 1875. Creator: Tsukioka Yoshitoshi
The Celebrated Dealer Nishimura Exposing an Art Forger, 1875. Series: The Postal News, no. 466

Saints with attendants, 20th-century painting on 14th-century antiphonary. Creator: Venetian Forger
Saints with attendants, 20th-century painting on 14th-century antiphonary. Miniature - detail

Le Théâtre français réduit...à se servir... 1858. Creator: Honore Daumier
Le Theatre francais reduit...a se servir... 1858. Le Theatre francais reduit, par suite de la disette des reines de tragedies, a se servir d'une reine-mannequin

The Volunteer Sham Fight in Camden Park - second position of the attacking force, 1860. Creator: Unknown
The Volunteer Sham Fight in Camden Park - second position of the attacking force, 1860. Fake miniature battle by British soldiers in Kent

The Volunteer Sham Fight in Camden Park - skirmishers covering the retreat, 1860. Creator: Unknown
The Volunteer Sham Fight in Camden Park - skirmishers covering the retreat, 1860. Fake battle by British soldiers in Kent....the appointed scene of operations [was] a valley

Portait of a man, 1930-1940. Creator: Han van Meegeren
Portait of a man, 1930-1940. Man wearing a black wide-brimmed hat, painted in the style of Gerard ter Borch. Henricus Antonius van Meegeren was a Dutch painter and portraitist

Malle Babbe, 1930-1940. Creator: Han van Meegeren
Malle Babbe, 1930-1940. A smiling woman raises a tankard to her mouth. Painted in the style of Frans Hals. Henricus Antonius van Meegeren was a Dutch painter and portraitist

Woman playing a cittern, 1930-1940. Creator: Han van Meegeren
Woman playing a cittern, 1930-1940. Seated woman reflected in the mirror on the wall behind her. Painted in the style of Johannes Vermeer

Madonna of Humility, (falsification of), 1910-1930. Creator: Unknown
Madonna of Humility, (falsification of), 1910-1930. Alternative titles: Maria de umilitade; Madonna dell'humilta. Modern forgery in the style of the Florentine School of the 15th century

Portrait of a man, c.1910-c.1935. Creator: Unknown
Portrait of a man, c.1910-c.1935. Bust of a scholar, fake in the style of Melozzo da Forli 1438-1494). Manner of Melozzo da Forli

Woman reading music, 1935-1940. Creator: Han van Meegeren
Woman reading music, 1935-1940. Painting inspired by Vermeer's Woman in Blue Reading a Letter'. Henricus Antonius van Meegeren was a Dutch painter and portraitist

The washing of the feet, 1935-1943. Creator: Han van Meegeren
The washing of the feet, 1935-1943. Mary anoints the feet of Christ, painted in the style of Johannes Vermeer. Henricus Antonius van Meegeren was a Dutch painter and portraitist

Portrait of Imogene Coca, Café Society (Downtown)(?), New York, N.Y. ca. June 1947. Creator: William Paul Gottlieb
Portrait of Imogene Coca, CafU Society (Downtown)(?), New York, N.Y. ca. June 1947

Theatrical production with Margaret Anglin and others, between 1910 and 1925. Creator: Arnold Genthe
Theatrical production with Margaret Anglin and others, between 1910 and 1925

The Civil War in America: a portion of the abandoned Confederate works and camp at... 1862. Creator: Unknown
The Civil War in America: a portion of the abandoned Confederate works and camp at Centreville - from a sketch by our special artist, 1862

The Bond Street battalion - or hospital staff from Holland!!!, 1799. Town fops feigning wounds (which had become fashionable on the return of the Guards from Holland)

The Taxidermist Doctor, 1843. Creator: Charles Emile Jacque
The Taxidermist Doctor, 1843

Pillow Sham Holder, 1937. Creator: Lloyd Charles Lemcke
Pillow Sham Holder, 1937

Postcard of a man posing in a Western scene in a photography studio, early 20th century
This real photo postcard depicts a man in a cowboy costume posing with a fake horse. He is standing to the right of the horse and is wearing a long-sleeve shirt, pants, fur chaps

The Counterfeiters, 1843. Creator: Charles Emile Jacque
The Counterfeiters, 1843

Quaker Gun, Centreville, Virginia, March 1862. Creator: George N. Barnard
Quaker Gun, Centreville, Virginia, March 1862

Mathieu. Gustave. (avec une barbe postiche), 1880s-90s. Creator: Alphonse Bertillon
Mathieu. Gustave. (avec une barbe postiche), 1880s-90s

Terracotta bust of a young man, c1860s, (1881). Creator: William H Jobbins
Terracotta bust of a young man, c1860s, (1881). Etching of a portrait bust made c1850-1868 in Florence by Giovanni Bastianini

Silver gilt book cover, (1881). Creator: W Jones
Silver gilt book cover, (1881). Etching of an undated filigree book cover, listed under the category Fakes. From " The South Kensington Museum", a book of engraved illustrations

Will he make gold?, 1932. Creator: Unknown
Will he make gold?, 1932. Fabriquera-t-il de l or?. Engineer Zbigniew Dunikowski claimed to be in possession of a secret formula which allowed him to obtain gold from ordinary sand and rocks

Ann Moore, the fasting woman of Tutbury, 1822. Creator: Robert Cooper
Ann Moore, the fasting woman of Tutbury, 1822. Portrait of Ann Moore (1761-1813) of Tutbury in Staffordshire who became notorious as a fraudulent fasting woman

View of a sham fight on the Serpentine, Hyde Park, London, 1814. Artist: Charles Calvert
View of a sham fight on the Serpentine, Hyde Park, London, 1814. Depicts one of a series of naval battle re-enactments which took place in Hyde Park as part of the peace celebrations of 1814

See Sir, see here, a Doctor Rare, Cries of London, (c1688?)
See Sir, see here, a Doctor Rare, (c1688?). A quack doctor accompanied by a monkey. His case and a number of small bottles are on the ground. From Cries of London, (c1688?)

Part of a letter from Thomas Chatterton to Horace Walpole, late 18th century, (1840). Artist: Thomas Chatterton
Part of a letter from Thomas Chatterton to Horace Walpole, late 18th century, (1840). The letter is an account of his pretended discovery of Rowleys poems

Detail of an Achaemenid gold and lapis lazuli staff
Lapis lazuli and gold staff handle, made in Iran. Modern fake in Achaemenid style. From the British Museums collection

Spirit unmasked at a London seance, 1880. Top: forming a circle by joining hands. Centre: a mediums assistant being placed behind a curtain (left), while spirit manifestations occur (right)

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