Antonio Raimo Galleries Ltd

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Antonio Raimo is adept at fraudulence. the "antique leather bound" books that he boasts as 100% original are copies that were in very poor shape until he had his employees butcher what could have been a restoration. using things like wood glue for the binding, wood markers for the spine and cover, and rub and buff for the exterior gold leaf on the pages! and if that isn't quite enough for any readers....he has his framers use wallpaper paste to lay 22-carat gold leaf during antique frame restoration instead of taking a few more minutes for a traditional water guilding. oh and....all those "original" prints in plastic covering displayed in his showroom...are nothing more than forged re-prints that he has his workers rub down with rotten-stone to falsify the appearance of their age .i just thought that people should be aware.

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