Yes it's been on already, it's a real hoot. They interviewed Ms Downing (I think it was), oh Lord how they made her squirm, I fear you'll enjoy it immensely!
They only concentrated on the Princess whereas the family had passed off hundreds of fakes, paintings and all sorts. Scary how easy it was.
The provenance of the princess was accepted simply because they got hold of a nineteenth century auction catalogue with a vague description of a statue but no photograph and drew a ring round it and said great grand daddy had bought her there. So you the Bolton taxpayer paid them £360k for two weeks work in their garden shed purely on that basis.
A detectorist is currently awaiting trial over allegedly faking loads of gold Roman coins. Those are dead easy, you just make a clay mould out of an original and stick it with a lump of gold into an electric kiln. EBay is full of them.
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