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unravel,
culminating in their arrest following the exposure of the fake Armana
princess which Bolton Museum had acquired for =A3440,000 after the =
British
Museum and Christie=92s had verified it in 2003.

Mr Falkiner said that he decided to make the revelations public because =
he
was unhappy that, far from being credited with their contribution to
exposing the fraud, Bonhams and the trade in general had been criticised =
in
the press for helping put fakes in circulation.

=93People need to understand that trade specialists have a much wider
experience than museum specialists because they deal with a far wider =
range
of objects and fresh things pass through their hands all the time,=94 he =
said.
=93As this case shows, auction houses play a key role in the detection =
of
fakes and forgeries.=94

But he reserved his greatest criticism for the Greenhalghs themselves.

=93This is not just a matter of greed. The Greenhalghs have made it far =
more
difficult for museums to approach the Art Fund and other bodies for =
funding,
because those who have fallen foul of the fakes will have had their
credibility dented.=94

The full range of fakes created by Shaun Greenhalgh may never be known =
but,
as well as antiquities, he is known to have produced items as varied as
paintings imitating the work of Colourist Samuel Peploe, and the =
so-called
Eadred Reliquary, a small silver object containing a piece of wood =
thought
to be a fragment of the True Cross.

The British Museum agreed to talk to ATG on the matter, but despite a =
number
of attempts to obtain a statement from them, none was forthcoming at the
time of going to press.

By Ivan Macquisten        =20

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