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Forgeries, Fakers, and the Auction Room Waltz

Forgeries, Fakers, and the Auction Room Waltz

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 Barnaby ventures into the shadow world where authenticity is perpetually on trial, using a forged Oscar Wilde letter and a deceptively enhanced Georgian table to illustrate sophisticated modern deception techniques. The episode reveals how forgers exploit authentic materials, legitimate scholarship, and the authentication process itself, while auction houses navigate the delicate dance between maintaining expertise and acknowledging uncertainty. Listeners develop a "toolkit for skepticism" including principles for evaluating attribution claims, understanding commercial contexts, and recognizing the psychological biases that affect expert judgment. Most importantly, the episode teaches how to develop "informed affection"—appreciating objects for what they actually are rather than what they pretend to be.

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