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Friday, March 20, 2009
Stolen Art Watch, Lowry Lord Maurice Taylor, Jailed for a Carpet, (Three years) !!
A LORD convicted of knowingly selling a fake LS Lowry-style painting has been jailed for three years.
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Lord Maurice Taylor, aged 61, of Kermincham, near Congleton, was found guilty of six charges of fraud at Chester Crown Court earlier this month.
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The charges related to a Lowry-style mill street scene painting. He was cleared of one charge of forging an invoice relating to the painting.
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The lord, who bought his title of Lord Windsor Taylor for £1,000 off the internet, made several hundred thousand pounds and tricked Bonham's auctioneers into believing the painting was genuine.
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He was sentenced today at Chester Crown Court.
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