Forgery

Forgery is the process of making or adapting objects or documents (see false document), with the intention to deceive. The similar crime of fraud is the crime of deceiving another, including through the use of objects obtained through forgery. Copies, studio replicas, and reproductions are not considered forgeries, though they may later become forgeries through knowing and willful mis-attributions. In the 16th century imitators of Albrecht Dürer's style of printmaking improved the market for their own prints by signing them "AD", making them forgeries.

Topics in forgery

• Archaeological forgery
• Discoveries of Shinichi Fujimura
• James Ossuary
• Piltdown Man
• Moses Shapira
• Tiara of Saitapharne, Louvre
• Lady of Elx
• See also Kensington Runestone controversy
• Drake's Plate of Brass
• Sinaia lead plates
• Art forgery
• Tom Keating
• Eric Hebborn
• Elmyr de Hory
• Dürer's imitators
• Camille Corot's imitators
• Han van Meegeren's Vermeers
• Michelangelo's Cupid
• 'Etruscan' warriors, Metropolitan Museum of Art
• The 'Cellini Cup'
• Samson ceramic forgeries
• Furniture faking
• Literary forgery - these literary forgeries all had some effect on the course of cultural history. Other literary forgeries, such as the Hitler diaries, briefly achieve wide notoriety, without affecting subsequent history; they are brought together as literary hoaxes.
• Epistle to the Laodiceans
• Theology of Aristotle
• Ademar of Chabannes' forged Life of St. Martial
• Thomas Chatterton's pseudo-medieval poetry
• Ossianic poems
• Manuscript of Dv?r Králové and Manuscript of Zelená Hora
• The Salamander Letter, which offered an alternative account of Joseph Smith's finding of the Book of Mormon, written by master forger Mark Hofmann.
• Relic forgery - It is not the efficacy of a relic that is in question, but only its provenance.
• cf True Cross
• cf Shroud of Turin
• cf Book of Mormon
• Biblical Archaeology - Ancient artifacts
• Moses Shapira
• Political forgery - false documents used for purposes of black propaganda.
• The Protocols of the Elders of Zion
• Zinoviev Letter
• Tanaka Memorial