Egypt
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- 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...
- 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...
- Amarna Fake Statuette May Go Back On Dispaly
The Bolton News The Amarna Princess, Bolton Museum's statuette at the centre of a forgery scam, could be exhibited in the town again. Conman Shaun Greenhalgh and his parents fooled experts at the British Museum, Christie's and the Egyptology department...
- 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,...
Egypt
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 it was authenticated as 3,300 years old by the Egyptology department at Christie's and the British Museum.
In fact, the figurine of the granddaughter of King Tutankhamun was crafted by master forger Shaun Greenhalgh, 48, in his garden shed in just three weeks.
The Princess Amarna is now in the hands of London's Metropolitan Police, but Bolton Council plans to borrow the statue for a special display in Bolton Museum's Egyptology section.
A council spokesman said: "The Amarna statue remains the property of the London Metropolitan Police as ordered by the judge, and therefore could never be housed at Bolton Museum permanently.
"However, we are currently looking into the possibility of the statue being temporarily returned to be put on special display."
See the above page for more.
- 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...
- 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...
- Amarna Fake Statuette May Go Back On Dispaly
The Bolton News The Amarna Princess, Bolton Museum's statuette at the centre of a forgery scam, could be exhibited in the town again. Conman Shaun Greenhalgh and his parents fooled experts at the British Museum, Christie's and the Egyptology department...
- 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,...