Forged Collection

Bismarck as Blacksmith
OTTO BISMARCK Prussian statesman, depicted as Smith of the Nation, handing a newly forged sword to Germania

The End of Sir John Franklins Arctic Expedition, 1845
Engraving showing the end of Sir John Franklins ill-fated Arctic expedition of 1845, entitled They Forged the last link with their lives. This engraving was taken from a painting by W

Malik-I-Maidan at the Bijapur Fort, Karnataka, India
The Malik-I-Maidan at the Bijapur Fort, Karnataka, India. The Malik-i-Maidan (Master of the Battlefield), also called Burj-E-Sherz

Palm-wine tapper climbing a palm tree, Senegambia
Naked palm-wine tapper climbing a date palm using a rope to collect a gourd full of sap, Senegambia, 18th century. A man gives instruction to the tapper. A negro ascending a palm tree for its wine

Ore park, Parc Metallurgique, Dommartin-le-Franc
Ore park, with displays of large forged pieces from the foundries of the Haute-Marne, at the Parc Metallurgique or Metallurgic Park, an interpretation centre for ancient and contemporary metallurgy

A Chaga Forge of the Maasai
A man of the Maasai Wa-Chaga tribe sits over a forge. The Masai are a semi-nomadic ethnic group who inhabit Southern Kenya and Northern Tanzania.The Wa-Chaga live at the foot of Mount Kilamanjaro

Comic postcard, Little boy and teacher - a forged letter! Date: 20th century

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

16th century codes - the Babington cipher
The forged postscript to the letter of Mary Queen of Scots to Anthony Babington. Thomas Phelippes added the postscript, which was to incriminate Mary Queen of Scots

The Victoria Pier, Hull, Humberside
Promotional postcard for the regional agent (M. A. Duquesne) for the Nestor Leonard Ironworks and Steelworks of the Societe Anonyme Feignies (Nord) at Lille, France (pictured). Date: circa 1910

Portugal. Evora. Cathedral of Virgin Mary. Door. Detail

Basin with reliefs of a marine procession (Thiasos). Rome. I
Basin with reliefs depicting a procession (Thiasos) with Tritons and Nereids with weapons forged by Hephaestus for Achilles. Pentelic marble. Found in the Hospital of the Holy Spirit (Rome). 120 BC

Cottingley Fairy Case - Night Light
An Advert for the Nighlight supposedly used by the Cottingley Fairy children to forge the photos they produced. Date: December 1921

Examining fraudulent financial documentation - cheques and credit cards are checked for authenticity by the Metropolitan Police force

Education, boys, metal work
A well equipped metal work class. A boy hammers a metal handle which he has just forged, upon the face of an anvil

Bulldog Cannon
The " Bulldog Cannon", found by the British Army in the Fort of Kurnaul, India, in 1838, but originally forged centuries earlier in China. The mouth is the guns muzzle

Arms for Aeneas
Hephaistos (Vulcan) gives Aphrodite (Venus) the weapons he has forged for Aeneas to use during the Trojan War

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