One of the most valuable antiques collections of jewellery in the world ... sometime in March. At least two hundred thousand pounds. Perhaps a quarter of a million. Goalbreak 1962 starring Peter Reynolds & Avice Landon & David Kernan & John Blythe & Robert Desmond & Geoffrey Hibbert & Carl Bernard & Carol White & Robert Fyfe & Katharine Page et al, director Francis Searle, antiques bloke to buyer opening scene
It’s a story rooted in the Imperial Russia of the Tsars ... an artist/jeweller – his company produces perhaps two hundred thousand unique objects. Faberge: A Life of Its Own, Sky Arts 2016
The first Faberge egg appears in 1885. ibid.
Shut down by the Bolsheviks. ibid.
January 28th 2008: the head of one of Britain’s most illusive crime families arrives to be sentenced. Together, Olive, Shaun and George Greenhalgh have become the most successful forgers in history. Their fakes ranged across all types of art. The Artful Codgers, Channel 4 2008
Most of their fakes were made in their garden shed. ibid.
The Artful Codgers – the most unlikely master-criminals the world has ever seen. ibid.
Police suspect they sold over a 140 forgeries. ibid.
The Greenhalghs moved on from faked paintings to bogus antiquities … all made by their son Shaun … Shaun taught himself how to fool the experts by visiting his local libraries. ibid.