Fake Collection (#7)

How to kiss your Rich Aunt ! A rather foolish and foppish young man (with an eye on the prize!) greets his Elderly (and very rich) Auntie with extreme enthusiasm. Date: 1908

The Loch Ness Monster in Invermoriston
The Loch Ness Monster obliges the photographers Invermoriston

Arthur Conan Doyle with fairies
Cottingley Fairy Case - William Marriotts fake photo of Arthur Conan Doyle with cut out fairies. Date: 1921

Harp seal pup and stuff seal toy on ice, Iles de la Madeleine, Quebec, Canada

FAIRY HOAX, 1920. Frances Griffiths and a leaping fairy, in a photograph made in 1920 by her cousin Elsie Wright with a paper cutout

American advertising display card for Groves Chill Tonic
PATENT MEDICINE, c1885. American advertising display card for Groves Chill Tonic

Quack, satirical artwork
Quack. Satirical artwork depicting a quack from Germany. Quack is a derogatory term referring to medical practitioners who defraud patients by claiming to have skills or qualifications that they do

Automatic photograph of sitters and Rudi Schneider at sance
Automatic photograph of sitters and Rudi Schneider at a sance at the National Laboratory of Psychical Research, 8 March 1932. Harry Price and Professor David Fraser-Harris are controlling Schneider

Scottish medium Helen Duncan during sance with ectoplasm
Photograph of the Scottish medium Helen Duncan during sance with " ectoplasm" wrapped around her head and the end tucked into her nostrils, May 1931. HPG/1/4/2 (x)"

Madonna lactans musician angels interior oil
Madonna lactans with musician angels in an interior, oil on fir wood, 34 x 24.5 cm, unmarked, Suddeutsch, 16. Jh. (Falschung / fake (?))

Life Grape Stone Fruit Fly 1686 oil canvas 18. 5 x 20. 5 cm
Still Life with Grape, Stone Fruit and Fly, 1686, oil on canvas, 18.5 x 20.5 cm, unsigned, Rachel Ruysch, (Falschung / fake (?)), Amsterdam 1664-1750 Amsterdam

Portrait Young Man Bust left black cap head Fake
Portrait of a Young Man, Portrait of a Young Man. Bust, to the left, a black cap on the head. Fake in the way of Filippino Lippi, anonymous historical person portrayed, Filippino Lippi (manner of)

114 Feet Long Skeleton Of Fake Sea Serpent Hydrarchos Harlani Put On Show In New York And Boston In 1845 By Albert C. Koch

Pears Background

Silhouette Of Head-Shaped Boulder At Dusk

Frog On A Bicycle

A21, 066
Rabbit, Pet rabbit ( agouti ) with asian kitten (chocolate ) wearing rabbit / bunny ears Date: 05-Feb-18

Mysteries - Crop Circles

Paranormal: William S. Marriott fake seance with flying banjo
A banjo floats mysteriously in the air at one of William S. Marriotts fake seances, thanks to a hook in the curtain, manipulated by the medium. Date: 1910

Azurine or Blue Roach -- a fish that didn t actually exist, but still managed to wriggle its way into a few 19th century reference books. Date: 1865

The Loch Ness Monster at Foyers. " You can t do that there ere" 1959

The Loch Ness Monster at Castle Urquhart

Piltdown Man
An illustration of The earliest known inhabitant of England, based upon the fragments of skull and jawbone supposedly discovered in a gravel pit at Piltdown, East Sussex, England

Picture No. 11768875
House Mouse with reindeer antlers and Rudolf red nose Digital Manipulation: Antlers JD nose and background created Date:

Open grave in a cemetery

Young woman with black hair, blue eyes and fake eyelashes

Fluffy Boxer dog with patriotic scarf at the London Pet Show 2012

Helen Duncan during a sance showing ectoplasm
Double photograph of the Scottish medium Helen Duncan during a sance showing " ectoplasm" wrapped around her head and reaching down to the floor, May 1931

Undated photograph of the Scottish medium Helen Duncan, blindfolded during a sance, with her head covered with ectoplasm reaching down to floor. The photograph is annotated to show fraudulence

Essex ring auctioned at Christie s
Two views of the famous Essex ring which Queen Elizabeth I is said to have given to the Earl of Essex, and which might have saved his life if it had been returned in time

Ufos / Marquand
UFO photographed in broad daylight near Bakersfield, California; alas, the photographer subsequently confessed it was a hub-cap tossed into the air

Fake Spirit Photo
The usual " spirit photograph", obtained by photographing the sitter with a positive of the ghost concealed in the dark-slide

Part of a letter from Thomas Chatterton to Horace Walpole, late 18th century, (1840). Artist: Thomas Chatterton
Part of a letter from Thomas Chatterton to Horace Walpole, late 18th century, (1840). The letter is an account of his pretended discovery of Rowleys poems

Detail of an Achaemenid gold and lapis lazuli staff
Lapis lazuli and gold staff handle, made in Iran. Modern fake in Achaemenid style. From the British Museums collection

Spirit unmasked at a London seance, 1880. Top: forming a circle by joining hands. Centre: a mediums assistant being placed behind a curtain (left), while spirit manifestations occur (right)

flower, tinsel, shiny, fake, artificial, fancy, bright, still life, studio shot, styling, pink color, pink, blue, vase, box, props, color block, no people, square, color photograph, vibrant color

Advert for International Hair Co. 1912
Latest transformation in wiglets for women. 1912

Advert for Marius Heng hairpieces 1912
New fashionable creations by incorporating fake hair to make attrative hair styles. 1912

Advert for Jourliac hairpieces 1912
Latest fashion in hairpieces. 1912

A clay reconstruction of the face of Piltdown Man
A clay reconstruction of the face of the paleoanthropological hoax Piltdown Man, discovered in the grounds of Barkham Manor at Piltdown, East Sussex

Womens hairstyles 1864
Selection of the latest styles of arranging the hair as adopted in Paris, and as practised by the leading Parisian hair-dressers

Advert for Unwin & Albert fringes 1898
Made of natural curling and waving hair, not affected by the sea air! 1898

Advert for Noirat hairpieces 1909
Advertisement for Noirat hairpieces, showing women with increased volume on top to support their enormous hats. 1909

Advert for Marius Heng, hair and beauty 1912
Advert for Marius Heng, lighter wigs with accessories. 1912

Advert for Marius Heng, hairpieces 1906
Advert for Marius Heng, elegant hairstyles using hairpieces for women. 1906

Advert for Noirat, hairpieces 1910
Advert for Noirat, pre-made fashionable wiglets for evening dress, an exhibition in Brussels, Noirat, won a prize for its hairpieces. 1910

Advert for Noirat, hair and beauty 1912
Advertisement for Noirat, showing women with increased visual width at the back of the head using wavy wigs, also wearing discrete headbands with feather and combs. 1912

Advert for William Cuverville wigs & decorative bands 1912
Advertisement for William Cuverville, womens wavy hairpieces and decorative bands with feathers. Photograph of women making wiglets, with male supervisors looking over them. 1912

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