etect thedeception. Recently such a modelwas offered to an American collec-tor as a genuine old specimen. Itwas in a handsome old Dutch casethat added much to the effect ofthe whole. But when the collectoractually studied the model and sawthat it had a wheel instead of atiller and that themodel of… … sailors fall a slingand truss of iron, heknew ii was a purelake. The receptacleturned out to be agenuine old Dutchclockcase. Humorous inci-dents are prevalentin all forms of col-lecting and amateursof ship models arenot without enjoy-ment of this kind.Not long ago one oithem received aletter from a…
Art · Decoration and ornament
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