An old desk passed off as a Civil War memorial has been exposed as a fraud thanks to a dogged antiques journalist and a pair of "smoking gun" photographs. A civil war-era secretary desk acquired by ...

Inside Out explores how easy it is to be tricked into paying big money for a ‘genuine’ fake. Everyone has been caught out at some time – including our top antiques forgery expert – but here he ...

A JURY in the trial of a Hampshire antique collector charged with fraud has retired to consider its verdict. Allan Formhals is charged with a total of 15 counts of fraud for selling books with ...