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"
Yes
,
"
McCarthy
said
.
They
both
knew
—
because
they
had
both
been
directly
involved
,
and
for
a
long
time
.
W
-
M
Corporation
’
s
stated
legal
business
consisted
in
turning
out
wrought
-
iron
staircases
,
railings
,
fireplaces
,
and
ornaments
for
new
apartment
buildings
,
all
on
a
mass
basis
,
from
standard
designs
.
For
a
new
forty
-
unit
building
the
same
piece
would
be
executed
forty
times
in
a
row
.
Ostensibly
,
W
-
M
Corporation
was
an
iron
foundry
.
But
in
addition
,
it
maintained
another
business
from
which
its
real
profits
were
derived
.
Using
an
elaborate
variety
of
tools
,
materials
,
and
machines
,
W
-
M
Corporation
turned
out
a
constant
flow
of
forgeries
of
pre
-
war
American
artifacts
.
These
forgeries
were
cautiously
but
expertly
fed
into
the
wholesale
art
object
market
,
to
join
the
genuine
objects
collected
throughout
the
continent
.
As
in
the
stamp
and
coin
business
,
no
one
could
possibly
estimate
the
percentage
of
forgeries
in
circulation
.
And
no
one
—
especially
the
dealers
and
the
collectors
themselves
—
wanted
to
.
When
Frink
had
quit
,
there
lay
half
-
finished
on
his
bench
a
Colt
revolver
of
the
Frontier
period
;
he
had
made
the
molds
himself
,
done
the
casting
,
and
had
been
busy
handsmoothing
the
pieces
.
There
was
an
unlimited
market
for
small
arms
of
the
American
Civil
War
and
Frontier
period
;
W
-
M
Corporation
could
sell
all
that
Frink
could
turn
out
.
It
was
his
specialty
.
Walking
slowly
over
to
his
bench
,
Frink
picked
up
the
still
-
rough
and
burred
ramrod
of
the
revolver
.
Another
three
days
and
the
gun
would
be
finished
.
Yes
,
he
thought
,
it
was
good
work
.
An
expert
could
have
told
the
difference
…
but
the
Japanese
collectors
weren
’
t
authorities
in
the
proper
sense
,
had
no
standards
or
tests
by
which
to
judge
.
In
fact
,
as
far
as
he
knew
,
it
had
never
occurred
to
them
to
ask
themselves
if
the
so
-
called
historic
art
objects
for
sale
in
West
Coast
shops
were
genuine
.
Perhaps
someday
they
would
…
and
then
the
bubble
would
burst
,
the
market
would
collapse
even
for
the
authentic
pieces
.
A
Gresham
’
s
Law
:
the
fakes
would
undermine
the
value
of
the
real
.
And
that
no
doubt
was
the
motive
for
the
failure
to
investigate
;
after
all
,
everyone
was
happy
.
The
factories
,
here
and
there
in
the
various
cities
,
which
turned
out
the
pieces
,
they
made
their
profits
.
The
wholesalers
passed
them
on
,
and
the
dealers
displayed
and
advertised
them
.
The
collectors
shelled
out
their
money
and
carried
their
purchases
happily
home
,
to
impress
their
associates
,
friends
,
and
mistresses
.
Like
postwar
boodle
paper
money
,
it
was
fine
until
questioned
.
Nobody
was
hurt
—
until
the
day
of
reckoning
.
And
then
everyone
,
equally
,
would
be
ruined
.
But
meanwhile
,
nobody
talked
about
it
,
even
the
men
who
earned
their
living
turning
out
the
forgeries
;
they
shut
their
own
minds
to
what
they
made
,
kept
their
attention
on
the
mere
technical
problems
.
"
How
long
since
you
tried
to
do
original
designing
?
"
McCarthy
asked
.
