Egypt
Bolton News (Paul Keaveny)
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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...
- 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...
- 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...
- 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
Fears of Bolton's master forger in TV spotlight
Bolton News (Paul Keaveny)
The recently convicted Greenhalgh family, who forged an Amarna statue which was purchased by Bolton Museum, are apparently being given TV time on the UK's Channel 4 tomorrow evening. I won't be at home tomorrow and I've never worked out how to use the DVD recorder so if anyone watches it please let me know how it turns out.
A compulsive forger duped the art world into buying a string of realistic fake masterpieces because he feared he would never be recognised as an artist in his own right.
Shaun Greenhalgh will be seen for the first time explaining why he decided to con the art world in a TV documentary to be screened on Thursday.
Channel 4's Cutting Edge programme, called The Artful Codgers, tells the story of the Greenhalgh family from Bromley Cross, who tricked Bolton Museum into spending £440,000 on a fake ancient Egyptian statue in 2003.
See the above page for the full story.
- 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...
- 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...
- 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...
- 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,...