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VIOLIN FRAUD
DECEPTION, FORGERY, AND LAWSUITS IN ENGLAND AND AMERICA |
| By: |
Brian W. Harvey, Carla J. Shapreau |
| Format: |
Hardback |
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£125.00 |
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| ISBN 10: |
0198166559 |
| ISBN 13: |
9780198166559 |
| Publisher: |
OXFORD UNIVERSITY PRESS |
| Pub. date: |
11 December, 1997 |
| Edition: |
2nd Revised edition |
| Pages: |
234 |
| Description: |
Frauds, forgeries, and thefts in the world of valuable antiques are recurring more and more. Easy money can be made by a clever crook. What should the seller, buyer, or owner of a violin (or other string instrument) look out for? What is the position when a label is wrong or there is a dispute as to correct attribution? What sensible precautions should sellers take? What activities are likely to be prosecuted by Trading Standards Officers? What can be done whena violin is stolen? All these matters (and more) are dealt with in this book. This new edition includes a discussion of American Law as it relates to to violin commerce, including a discussion of violin theft, fraud, and contract issues, product disparagement, and slander, auction issues, tax issues, secret commissions, ethics, and intellectual property theft. |
| Synopsis: |
Instruments of the violin family are well known to be exceptionally valuable if they are the work of an Italian master such as Stradivari or Guarneri. Unfortunately, in common with many other antique articles of value, the forger, the defrauder, and the thief operate in the world of the violin in a very conspicuous way. With varying degrees of skill, labels are altered, certificates of origin are spuriously created, instruments are even made from new but disguised to look old and to reproduced the features of an old master. Buyers, dealers, and even auction houses can easily make distressing and very expensive mistakes. Many people who own instruments, or who are interested in buying them, want to know more about the dangers, the pitfalls, and the case histories of previous disasters. The law itself is widely misunderstood and its wide ambit not appreciated. Those who contravene the law risk actions for civil damages as well as criminal prosecution, primarily by the ever more vigilant Trading Standards Department of local authorities. It is the intention of this book to detect the background to this fraudulent activity and to explain how the law applies to it.Much of what is said applies to the antique world generally, but there are specific and pressing problems relating to to string instruments which have not been analysed in detail before and with which this book is particularly concerned. This new edition includes an account of American law as it relates to to violin commerce, including a discussion of violin theft, fraud, and contract issues, product disparagement, and slander, auction issues, tax issues, secret commissions, ethics, and intellectual property theft. |
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figures |
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UK |
| Imprint: |
Clarendon Press |
| Returns: |
Returnable |
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