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Sunday Telegraph reader discovers his treasured Charles Dickens letter is a forgery after article reveals tell-tale signs
The forged letter cost our reader £1,400 - but he discovered it was a fake thanks to the Sunday Telegraph
30 January 2021 • 5:00pm
Peter Lawson of Poulton-le-Fylde, Lancashire, with the Dickens letter he bought , and is now understood to be a forgery.
Credit: Lorne Campbell
Peter Lawson did a double-take when he read a Sunday Telegraph report on the unmasking of a Charles Dickens letter as a forgery earlier this month.
The retired lawyer realised the letter looked suspiciously similar to one that he has treasured over some 25 years. He contacted the expert in that report and was dismayed to hear the verdict: his own letter is also a forgery by the same forger.