Violin Fraud
Deception, Forgery, and Lawsuits in England and America
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Product details:
- Edition number 2
- Publisher Clarendon Press
- Date of Publication 11 December 1997
- ISBN 9780198166559
- Binding Hardback
- No. of pages234 pages
- Size 225x145x19 mm
- Weight 465 g
- Language English
- Illustrations figures 0
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Short description:
Frauds, forgeries, and thefts in the world of valuable antiques are recurring more and more. Easy money can be made by a clever crook. What should the seller, buyer, or owner of a violin (or other string instrument) look out for? What is the position when a label is wrong or there is a dispute as to correct attribution? What sensible precautions should sellers take? What activities are likely to be prosecuted by Trading Standards Officers? What can be done when a violin is stolen? All these matters (and more) are dealt with in this book.
This new edition includes a discussion of American Law as it relates to to violin commerce, including a discussion of violin theft, fraud, and contract issues, product disparagement, and slander, auction issues, tax issues, secret commissions, ethics, and intellectual property theft.
Long description:
Instruments of the violin family are well known to be exceptionally valuable if they are the work of an Italian master such as Stradivari or Guarneri. Unfortunately, in common with many other antique articles of value, the forger, the defrauder, and the thief operate in the world of the violin in a very conspicuous way. With varying degrees of skill, labels are altered, certificates of origin are spuriously created, instruments are even made from new but disguised to look old and to reproduced the features of an old master. Buyers, dealers, and even auction houses can easily make distressing and very expensive mistakes.
Many people who own instruments, or who are interested in buying them, want to know more about the dangers, the pitfalls, and the case histories of previous disasters. The law itself is widely misunderstood and its wide ambit not appreciated. Those who contravene the law risk actions for civil damages as well as criminal prosecution, primarily by the ever more vigilant Trading Standards Department of local authorities.
It is the intention of this book to detect the background to this fraudulent activity and to explain how the law applies to it. Much of what is said applies to the antique world generally, but there are specific and pressing problems relating to to string instruments which have not been analysed in detail before and with which this book is particularly concerned.
This new edition includes an account of American law as it relates to to violin commerce, including a discussion of violin theft, fraud, and contract issues, product disparagement, and slander, auction issues, tax issues, secret commissions, ethics, and intellectual property theft.
Essential reading for anyone who is involved in the business of musical instruments in any way, and recommended reading for those who own or purchase instruments.
Table of Contents:
Part I
A Case Study in Supply and Demand - the Violin Scene
History of Violin Frauds
Liability for Misdescriptions - Civil and Criminal Law
Business for Pleasure - Legal Traps
Misdescriptions and False Labels
Fakes and Forgeries - the Problem of Attribution
Stolen Violins
Improving Violin Trading and Repairing Standards
Part II (Carla Shapreau)
The Purloined Violin
International and Innocent Misdescriptions
Breach of Contract and Warranties
Auction Issues
Discovery of Fraud and Deception: Fiddling Away the Time - The Statute of Limitations and other Defenses
Defamation and Product Disparagement
Tax Issues
Secret Commissions
Criminal Liability
Ethics
Intellectual Property
Appendix: A Summary of Practical Guide-Lines for Everyone Involved in the Violin Trade
Bibliography
Table of Cases
Table of Legislation
Index
