A Real Story of Fake Antiques

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But I bought it in a French antiques store, I
paid five hundred for it, pleaded the woman of
the older couple dressed as if they had fallen
from an Edwardian picture postcard. The onlookers
looked on embarrassed for this obviously
respectable couple. The Antiques Roadshow
appraiser of antiques stood with bowed head in
silence not wishing to add to the couples
embarrassment. The wife with the powdered face
and antique lace hair-net was not giving up
easily.
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• This is genuine French antique, she pleaded
  with a raided voice that was now bordering on
  shrill, We bought it while we were on our
  honeymoon in antique stores in Versailles fifty
  years ago. It had now become a collective buying
  decision. The blame shift was obvious to those
  near enough to hear and certainly to the antiques
  appraiser.

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• The lady appraiser of antiques was hoping some of
  the production team from The Antiques Roadshow
  would intervene but nobody rode to her rescue.
  She reached out and put her hand gently on the
  fur trimmed sleeve of the irate ladies coat.

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I am sorry but as I said this is a reproduction
of an antique, it was aged by unscrupulous
people and then sold to unsuspecting people like
you who were very honest and too young to have
the knowledge to see it was a fake, gently
reasoned the appraiser in her most reassuring
voice.
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She said we were stupid, the lady in the
hairnet address this to her husband who stood
with hunched shoulders and a look of resignation
on his care worn concerned face.
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• Dear, it was a long time ago, perhaps we should
  just forget about it and accept what this nice
  woman tells us, it is not an antique, the
  antiques store is to blame so lets go home,
  pleaded the suffering man as he looked at her
  with loving soft eyes.

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It is your fault, you and your , we must buy a
nice French antique as a reminder of our
honeymoon, well this is where another of your
stupid ideas have got us, the woman in the net
wagged her head and shoulders as she quoted her
embarrassed husband in an even more shrill voice
which bordered on a scream.
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It wasn't even your money, it was my daddys
money you spent on that worthless French
Antique, continued the woman in the net. Daddy
was right, you were a fake, a pretender, an
imitator of a real man, screamed the woman at
her now very pale and downcast husband. All we
had that we cherished after fifty years was that
now worthless antique, she poked him in the
chest with her bone like finger.
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• A fake for a fake, it was to be the start of a
  great collection of french antiques, you said, an
  heirloom for out children, she continued to poke
  him even harder. The Antiques roadshow Antiques
  appraiser was between two minds, should she
  interfere in this now domestic row or should she
  just quietly slip into the crowd. Well now we
  have no French Antiques and we certainly have no
  children, you were a fake there too. The lady in
  the net was crying now and her pokes were devoid
  of energy just open handed pats against the flat
  of his chest.

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He reached for her shoulders and gently pulled
the lady in the net into his embrace. He kissed
the top of her head and turned her away from The
Antiques Roadshow appraiser of antiques. She
gestured to the worthless example of fake French
Antiques that lay almost forgotten on the green
blaze of the antique card table. He waved it away
with a flick of his wrist saying, Give it to
charity, we have forgotten about it already, our
son is waiting in the car for us.
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Reality dawned on the antiques appraiser and on
the near faces in the crowd. Could I not have
pretended, just this once, silently The Antiques
Roadshow antiques appraiser admonished herself
with sad tears in her eyes.
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