Real or Fake: Studies in Authentication

by Joe Nickell

Book Overview

Will the rare autographed baseball your great-uncle gave you put your children through college? Is your grandmother's chest of drawers really a seventeenth-century antique, or merely a reproduction? A leader in forgery detection and forensic investigation, Joe Nickell reveals his secrets to detecting artifacts items in Real or Fake: Studies in Authentication . Detailing how the pros determine whether an Abraham Lincoln signature is forged or if a...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0813125340
• ISBN13: 9780813125343
• Release Date: July 2009
• Publisher: University Press of Kentucky
• Length: 256 Pages
• Weight: 1.20 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.1" x 5.9" x 9.0"
• Grade Range: Postsecondary and higher