Egypt
Manchester Evening News
Also on the BBC News website and the International Herald Tribune.
- 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...
- Amarna Statuette Forger Jailed For Art Con
BBC News A 47-year-old man has been jailed for more than four years for what police said was "the most sustained and diverse" art forgery case ever. Shaun Greenhalgh, from Bolton, passed off scores of faked artefacts and artworks as genuine. His mother...
- Amarna Statuette Fraudsters Sentenced
This story has generated quite a lot of interest in the UK. International Herald Tribune A court in northern England sentenced an antique dealer to prison Friday for churning out statues, paintings and other art works and passing the sophisticated fakes...
- 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,...
- More About The Amarna Forgery At Bolton Museum
http://tinyurl.com/3bo42x (thisislondon.co.uk) It is nice to see that there has been a follow-up to the discovery that the headless statue, created in the style distinctive to the Amarna period, and purchased for 440,000ukp by Bolton Museum, was found...
Egypt
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 between June 1999 and March last year, Bolton Crown Court heard.
They also admitted conspiracy to conceal and transfer £410,392, the proceeds of the sale of the Amarna Princess statuette to Bolton Metropolitan Borough Council.
Their son, Shaun, 47, pleaded guilty to the same offences at an earlier hearing.
All three, who live at The Crescent, Bromley Cross, Bolton, will be sentenced on a date to be fixed between November 16 and 23.
They were were given unconditional bail.The Amarna Princess, an Egyptian statue, believed to be about 3,300 years old, was bought by Bolton Council for £440,000 in September 2003.
However, experts determined the 20-inch sculpture was a fake last year.
- 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...
- Amarna Statuette Forger Jailed For Art Con
BBC News A 47-year-old man has been jailed for more than four years for what police said was "the most sustained and diverse" art forgery case ever. Shaun Greenhalgh, from Bolton, passed off scores of faked artefacts and artworks as genuine. His mother...
- Amarna Statuette Fraudsters Sentenced
This story has generated quite a lot of interest in the UK. International Herald Tribune A court in northern England sentenced an antique dealer to prison Friday for churning out statues, paintings and other art works and passing the sophisticated fakes...
- 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,...
- More About The Amarna Forgery At Bolton Museum
http://tinyurl.com/3bo42x (thisislondon.co.uk) It is nice to see that there has been a follow-up to the discovery that the headless statue, created in the style distinctive to the Amarna period, and purchased for 440,000ukp by Bolton Museum, was found...