{"product_id":"9781618913128","title":"Basketball Records","description":"\u003cp\u003ePurchase includes free access to book updates online and a free trial membership in the publisher's book club where you can select from more than a million books without charge. Chapters: Dana Plato, Han Van Meegeren, John Edward Robinson, Mark Hofmann, William Chaloner, Frank Abagnale, Johnny Paycheck, Pseudo-Isidore, Peter Tobin, Thomas Chatterton, Matthew Cox, Jacques Van Meegeren, Elmyr de Hory, Clifford Irving, Fritz Kreisler, William Henry Ireland, Neville Heath, Charles Bertram, Iolo Morganwg, William Roupell, Michel Roger Lafosse, Annio Da Viterbo, Henry Woodhouse, Dean Faiello, Sir Edmund Backhouse, 2nd Baronet, Alexis Flores, Brita Tott, Lucio Urtubia, William Dodd, Scott Reuben, Constantine Simonides, Benedict Levita, Michael John Hamdani, Alexander Howland Smith, Shawqi Salama Mustafa Atiya, William Wantling, Denis Vrain-Lucas, James Townsend Saward, Robert Spring, Clotilde de Surville, Andrzej Kolikowski, Joseph Cosey, Piligrim, Barakat Fahim Ali Mohamed, Charles Weisberg, François Nodot, Sámuel Literáti Nemes, Alfredo Fioravanti. Excerpt: Alexander Howland Smith , (?-?), also known as the \"Antique Smith\", was a Scottish document forger in the 1880's. His forgeries still surface today.Methods Howland Smith began his forging career in the 1880's in Edinburgh . Scotland. At first, he began to visit second hand bookshops and bought all kinds of old books with blank fly leaves. He always carried them home himself, a habit that some bookshop owners thought unusual, since the books were old and heavy. When these materials ran out, he resorted to modern paper.Smith began to sell his forgeries in 1886 and continued for the next five years. He sold them to bookshops, auctions and pawnshops, usually at modest prices.Smith forged manuscripts from various historical people, such as Mary, Queen of Scots , Oliver Cromwell and Sir Walter Scott . Smith forged the signatures without tracing the originals. He created poems , autographs and historical letters. He made...\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Bellwether Media","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47055322284272,"sku":"9781618913128","price":7.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0737\/7593\/9824\/files\/9781618913128_p0.jpg?v=1763855416","url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/9781618913128","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}