Fraud, Fakery and False Business: Rethinking the Shrager versus Dighton 'Old Furniture Case' - Hardcover

Harrison Moore, Abigail

 
9781441115751: Fraud, Fakery and False Business: Rethinking the Shrager versus Dighton 'Old Furniture Case'
Hardcover
ISBN 10: 1441115757 ISBN 13: 9781441115751
Publisher: Continuum, 2011

Synopsis

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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About the Author

Abigail Harrison Moore is the Deputy Head of the School of Fine Art, History of Art and Cultural Studies at the University of Leeds, where she is also programme director for the MA in Art Gallery and Museum Studies.

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Publisher
Continuum
Publication date
2011
Language
English
ISBN 10 
1441115757
ISBN 13 
9781441115751
Binding
Hardcover
Number of pages
240