Fake Fraud Genuine - Identifying Antique American Furniture / In-Depth Book

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212 black-and-white photographs and 10 color plates supplement this comprehensive book on identifying authentic American antique furniture.
FAKE, FRAUD, OR GENUINE – Identifying Authentic American Antique Furniture
by Myrna Kaye, Bulfinch Press, 1987/1991.
“This lucid text is witty and amusing, but the author is deadly serious…and highly qualified.  Distilled from her practical and scholarly experience, the book is written for the average antiques buyer as well as the sophisticated one. This in-depth book “shows how to examine furniture of the seventeenth, eighteen, and nineteenth centuries in order to discern genuine, the repaired antique, the honest reproduction, the complete fake, and the many types of frauds.  Through simple, practical techniques, the reader will learn to put styles, construction, and technology to work.  Cautionary tales are accompanied by rogue’s gallery of illuminating illustrations, many of them details photographed especially for this book. Fakers will find this book discouraging; buyers of American furniture will find it indispensable. ”
8.5" x 11" softback in very good condition.  214 pages.
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