A free talk at Chetham's Library, as part of a new Tudor-themed exhibition
From Thursday 15th August – Wednesday 11th September, Chetham’s Library will be exhibiting the marriage bed of king Henry VII and Elizabeth of York, telling the story of it's history and Manchester connections.
This investigates deceptions of a 19th century forger to impress and distract with Helen Hughes.
George Shaw (1810 – 1876) was an architect, designer and antique collector, and from 1842 a forger of furniture. Shaw presented his forgeries unpainted, ‘frosted with age’ and offered them to several aristocratic families as genuine family relics dating from the fifteenth century.
But by 1847 the Duke of Northumberland was beginning to have his suspicions about the seemingly endless supply of beds in good repair…