Clifford Irving's 10 Best Forgers of All Time

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Option	Votes
the see of rome	1
arturo alves reis	1
mr. x (copout - "by definition, the identity of the greatest forger of all time ... is unknown to us")	1
charles dawson	0
fritz kreisler	0
alcibiades simonides - not much info online on this dude	0
william henry ireland	0
elmyr de hory	0
clifford irving (lol humility)	0
hans van meegeren	0

― congratulations (n/a), Monday, 16 February 2009 23:11 (seventeen years ago)

for the see of rome, he's referring to the donation of constantine as the forgery

― congratulations (n/a), Monday, 16 February 2009 23:12 (seventeen years ago)

here is some info on alcibiades simonides but it's in google books format

― congratulations (n/a), Monday, 16 February 2009 23:16 (seventeen years ago)

patricia highsmith's ripley under ground is a good book about art forgery.

― Tracy Michael Jordan Catalano (Jordan), Monday, 16 February 2009 23:21 (seventeen years ago)

the article i linked about arturo alves reis is pretty great though whether you define can him as a "forger" exactly is a little iffy since the money he made was printed by an authorized, official currency printer ... i might vote for him anyways

― congratulations (n/a), Monday, 16 February 2009 23:44 (seventeen years ago)

this thread inspired by Top Ten Art Thefts

― congratulations (n/a), Monday, 16 February 2009 23:45 (seventeen years ago)

jordan OTM

besides irving himself the only one i really know of is elmyr de hory (because guess which movie i've seen)

― ORGASM REMIX (donna rouge), Monday, 16 February 2009 23:50 (seventeen years ago)

charles dawson is pretty awesome too, piltdown man

― congratulations (n/a), Monday, 16 February 2009 23:51 (seventeen years ago)

i think maybe art forgery pales in comparison to archeological or fiscal forgery

― congratulations (n/a), Monday, 16 February 2009 23:51 (seventeen years ago)

reis story is cool

― s1ocki, Monday, 16 February 2009 23:53 (seventeen years ago)

by the holy see does he mean forged papal bulls? the wiki entry doesn't really mention anything about it

― ORGASM REMIX (donna rouge), Monday, 16 February 2009 23:58 (seventeen years ago)

he's talking about the donation of constantine, see my first post in the thread for link

― congratulations (n/a), Monday, 16 February 2009 23:59 (seventeen years ago)

whoa, how the hell did i completely miss that? thx

― ORGASM REMIX (donna rouge), Tuesday, 17 February 2009 00:01 (seventeen years ago)

Voted for Reis. Heck of a story and also because this is one of my fave true crime books

http://g-ecx.images-amazon.com/images/G/01/ciu/43/bb/cb4f228348a0b81640fbe010._AA240_.L.jpg

― Chris Barrus (Elvis Telecom), Tuesday, 17 February 2009 00:28 (seventeen years ago)

Automatic thread bump. This poll is closing tomorrow.

― System, Thursday, 26 February 2009 00:01 (sixteen years ago)

Automatic thread bump. This poll's results are now in.

― System, Friday, 27 February 2009 00:01 (sixteen years ago)

three votes? i thought this was a good poll :(

― congratulations (n/a), Friday, 27 February 2009 02:25 (sixteen years ago)

one year passes...

1. this is one my most favorite, least successful polls
2. this exhibit sounds amazing: http://www.nytimes.com/2010/11/19/arts/design/19antiques.html?src=twr

― congratulations (n/a), Friday, 19 November 2010 00:26 (fifteen years ago)

I guess it's only a five-hour drive to Detroit...

― congratulations (n/a), Friday, 19 November 2010 00:27 (fifteen years ago)

more like SNOREgers!

― Onigaga (Princess TamTam), Friday, 19 November 2010 00:28 (fifteen years ago)

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