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A forgery is essentially concerned with a produced or altered object. Where the prime concern of a forgery is less focused on the object itself – what it is worth or what it "proves" – than on a tacit statement of criticism that is revealed by the reactions the object provokes in others, then the larger process is a hoax.
[T]wo very old manuscripts of the New Testament, the newest of which was, as appeared by the date of it, at least 800 years old, in each of which 1 John, ch.v. ver. 7, was quite wanting, and the end of the eighth verse ran thus, "tres unum sunt;" in another old copy the seventh verse was, but with interlining; in another much more modern copy ...
Scholars have identified seven levels of authenticity which they have organized in a hierarchy ranging from literal authorship, meaning written in the author's own hand, to outright forgery: [11] Literal authorship. A church leader writes a letter in his own hand. Dictation. A church leader dictates a letter almost word for word to an amanuensis.
Sometimes, forgery is the method of choice in defrauding a bank. There are three main types of cheque forgery: [1] (a) Counterfeit. This is a cheque that has been created on non-bank paper to look genuine. It relates to a genuine account. (b) Forged signature. The cheque is genuine, but the signature is not that of the account holder.
The Vancouver Island forgery refers to a stamp that was originally issued in 1865. [7] To produce his forgery, de Sperati bleached a real, cheaper stamp of the same vintage. He then used a process called photolithography to make an almost perfect copy of the stamp. In his lifetime, Jean de Sperati forged over 500 stamps.
Cover of The Songs of Bilitis (1894), a French pseudotranslation of Ancient Greek erotic poetry by Pierre Louÿs. Literary forgery (also known as literary mystification, literary fraud or literary hoax) is writing, such as a manuscript or a literary work, which is either deliberately misattributed to a historical or invented author, or is a purported memoir or other presumably nonfictional ...
Epistle to the Alexandrians — an unknown text derided as a forgery in a 7th-century manuscript; Epistle to the Laodiceans — a lost letter of Saint Paul, often "rediscovered" by forgers; Essene Gospel of Peace — a text which claims, among other things, that Jesus was a vegetarian; Gospel of Josephus — a forgery created to raise publicity ...
Mathilde Lefebvre letter; James Maybrick; Mecklenburg Declaration of Independence; Memoirs of Mr. Hempher, The British Spy to the Middle East; A Million Little Pieces; Miscegenation hoax; Misha: A Mémoire of the Holocaust Years; Moments (poem) Marlo Morgan; Iolo Morganwg; Musevisa; Mussolini diaries; My Friend Leonard; My Sister and I (Nietzsche)