Egypt
Manchester Evening News (Paul Britton)
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The Independent, UK (Jeananne Craig) A council which was duped into paying £440,000 for a fake Egyptian statuette said today that it hopes to put the sculpture on display in a local museum. Bolton Council bought the 20-inch Princess Amarna in 2003 after...
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The Bolton News (Paul Keaveny) A MASTER forger and his elderly parents have been ordered to pay £363,000 to Bolton Museum after conning bosses into buying a fake statue. Shaun Greenhalgh along with his mum and dad, George and Olive, duped experts into...
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Manchester Evening News A COUPLE in their 80s today pleaded guilty to defrauding galleries and antique dealers by passing off fake works of art. George Greenhalgh, 84, and Olive Greenhalgh, 83, of Bolton, Greater Manchester, conspired to defraud art institutions...
- Trial Set For Dealers Who Sold Fake Amarna Statuette In Bolton Uk
The Telegraph A family appeared in court yesterday accused of passing off a fake Egyptian artefact to a local authority for more than £400,000. George Greenhalgh, 83, who is wheelchair-bound, was positioned outside the dock while his wife Olive, 82,...
- More Re Charges Relating To Forged Amarna Statue
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/england/manchester/6596597.stm"Bolton Council paid £440,000 for the Amarna Princess in 2003 believing it was 3,300-years-old - but in 2006 experts found it was counterfeit. George Greenhalgh, his wife Olive, 82, and sons, George,...
Egypt
Amarna fake to go on display
Manchester Evening News (Paul Britton)
An infamous forged statue of an Egyptian princess will go on display at the same museum that paid £440,000 for it.
Bolton council believed the 20-inch statue, the Amarna Princess, was more than 3,300 years old after it was authenticated by experts in Egyptology at Christie’s auction house and at the British Musuem.
It was said to be a figurine of the grandaughter of King Tutankhamun and held up as a rare example of Egyptian craftwork.
But it later emerged the piece was ‘knocked up’ in the shed of a council house in Bromley Cross, Bolton.
In a case that attracted worldwide media coverage, master forger Shaun Greenhalgh admitted it took him just three weeks to create.
The self-taught artist was revealed to have created numerous fakes, including statues said to have been made by artists Barbara Hepworth, Constantin Brancusi, Henry Moore and Man Ray.
Greenhalgh’s elderly parents, George and Olive, admitted helping to sell their son’s works.
Greenhalgh was jailed for four years and his parents received suspended prison sentences after a scam police believe netted them £850,000 over 17 years.
The Amarna Princess has been securely held by the Metropolitan Police arts and antiques unit since the court case.
But museum bosses in Bolton have revealed that the piece will go on show again in the town as part of a touring exhibition.
- Duped Council Hopes To Display Fake Statue
The Independent, UK (Jeananne Craig) A council which was duped into paying £440,000 for a fake Egyptian statuette said today that it hopes to put the sculpture on display in a local museum. Bolton Council bought the 20-inch Princess Amarna in 2003 after...
- Statue Forger Ordered To Pay Thousands To Museum
The Bolton News (Paul Keaveny) A MASTER forger and his elderly parents have been ordered to pay £363,000 to Bolton Museum after conning bosses into buying a fake statue. Shaun Greenhalgh along with his mum and dad, George and Olive, duped experts into...
- Couple Pleads Guilty To Fraud Over Egyptian Statue Fakery
Manchester Evening News A COUPLE in their 80s today pleaded guilty to defrauding galleries and antique dealers by passing off fake works of art. George Greenhalgh, 84, and Olive Greenhalgh, 83, of Bolton, Greater Manchester, conspired to defraud art institutions...
- Trial Set For Dealers Who Sold Fake Amarna Statuette In Bolton Uk
The Telegraph A family appeared in court yesterday accused of passing off a fake Egyptian artefact to a local authority for more than £400,000. George Greenhalgh, 83, who is wheelchair-bound, was positioned outside the dock while his wife Olive, 82,...
- More Re Charges Relating To Forged Amarna Statue
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/england/manchester/6596597.stm"Bolton Council paid £440,000 for the Amarna Princess in 2003 believing it was 3,300-years-old - but in 2006 experts found it was counterfeit. George Greenhalgh, his wife Olive, 82, and sons, George,...