[DCRM-L] Cataloging known forgeries

[Linda, Oksana]

Hello:

At the Clements we have some books with forged illustrations and inscriptions. One example that comes to mind is "Boots and saddles," or, Life in Dakota with General Custer / by Elizabeth B. Custer. The item includes forged illustrations and inscriptions by Eugene Field II. 

I included the following local notes and subject headings:

590 |a Extra-illustrated with forged illustrations, bookplate, and inscriptions by Eugene Field II (1880-1946). Forgeries include two pen-and-ink and watercolor drawings of Frederic Remington. First image is of an Indian pony arrayed in blankets and other tribal items with papoose containing a small Indian child; beneath the drawing is ms. inscription "My Book Frederic Remington" with a "kicking horse" drawn leaping from "F" as part of the signature. Field uses brown ink for his Remington signatures. Second less elaborate image is a watercolor of a peace pipe and arrow, with forged Remington's signature in ms. and another "kicking horse," also in brown ink.

590 |a Includes photo-engraved fake bookplate of the writer Eugene Field (1850-1895) with his forged ms. signature and forged inscription with sentiment of William F. Cody.

60010 |a Remington, Frederic, |d 1861-1909 |x Forgeries.
60010 |a Field, Eugene, |d 1850-1895 |x Forgeries.
60000	|a Buffalo Bill, |d 1846-1917 |x Forgeries.
650 0 |a Literary forgeries and mystifications.
 

I hope it helps.
/Oksana. 

Oksana Katerine Linda
University of Michigan
William L. Clements Library
 


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Subject: [DCRM-L] Cataloging known forgeries

Does anyone have experience cataloging known forgeries? The Clark has a
small group of these and I'm wondering if there is a "proper" way to
describe them.

Here is what we're thinking: cataloging according to DCRM(B) rules on
fictitious or incorrect information, using the relator code, "attributed
name" after our supposed author, and adding "False association copies"
from Provenance Evidence in a 655 field. Although these steps should
make it clear that we really don't have an Einstein pamphlet or letters
of Nathaniel Hawthorne, I just want to make sure we aren't missing
anything before we proceed.

Thanks for any advice!

Nina

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Nina Schneider
Head Cataloger
William Andrews Clark Memorial Library
2520 Cimarron Street
Los Angeles, CA  90018

323-731-8529
nschneider at humnet.ucla.edu