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Fraud, Fakery and False Business - Rethinking the Shrager versus Dighton 'Old Furniture Case' (Hardcover)
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Fraud, Fakery and False Business - Rethinking the Shrager versus Dighton 'Old Furniture Case' (Hardcover)
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Political, social and racial discrimination in inter-war England
explored through one case study of the corrupt antiques market. In
1922, Adolphe Shrager having made his fortune during the First
World War, approached the London dealer Basil Dighton for advice on
purchasing antique furniture. Dighton sold him about five hundred
items but shortly afterwards Shrager discovered that one of his
'collector's pieces' was judged to be a fake and grossly
over-priced, and he sued. The trial, held in early 1923, became a
cause celebre, but it can be viewed as a case study of a much wider
set of social and cultural concerns: the fact that Shrager lost
both the first trial and the appeal, despite demonstrating on
numerous occasions that he had a clear case against Dighton, raises
questions of race, prejudice and class, where the establishment
closed ranks against Shrager, the nouveau riche Jew and alleged war
profiteer. This book - the first on the Shrager Dighton case - is
the result of the author's original archival research.
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