Preface: Forgery in Action Acknowledgments List of Figures Abbreviations Calendar Systems Transliteration About the cover Introduction--Fakes: In It From the Outset 1 Carlo Ginzburg's Photo Finish 2 Robert-Henri Bautier's Passion 3 What Two Out-And-Out Usurpers Look Like 4 State Art and Statecraft Part1 Apprehensions and Reprehensions: Looking for Imprints Introduction to Part1 1 Symbolic Deaths, or Proscription 1 El-'c 'li from Bûrdur 2 ai Efendi--Deactivating a Pasha 3 An Inventory as an Example2 Sharp Sight, or the Reserves of Perspicacity 1 From Afar, or the Fleeting Glimpse of Memed Fû''d Efendi 2 Seen from Closer Up--the Attentive Gaze 3 Collocation Effects 4 In Which Excellence Frequents Mediocrity 5 Matter for Discernment 6 Distinctive Characteristics3 Conditioning What Cannot Be Discerned 1 Clipped and Gilded 2 Memed the Kurd, or the Mutism of Scratching 3 Sándor Radnóti, or the Power of Wear(ing) 4 Süleym'n Efendi, or Interpolation in the Hollows 5 The Report from Bîg', or How to Falsify Without Altering 6 Falsification despite the Indiscernible 7 Vanishing Fakes 8 The Garden of San Stefano4 Extracts from the Realm of Particles A Short Theory of Mixtures and Amalgamations 1 Medicines, Fats, and Assimilated Products 2 Trieste Rums, Leucadian Wines 3 Water, Lemonade, and Carbonic Acid 4 Rearranged and Recomposed 5 Léon the Austrian and Co. 6 Aniline and Its Admixtures 7 The Color of Science: The Artifice of Chromatopsia 8 Tea in the Laboratory 9 All Sorts of Avania 10 The Apothecary Dressed Up as a Chemist Coda: The Power of Suspicion 1 Gone AWOL Part2 Characterization and Classification: The Morphology of Reports and Relationships Introduction to Part2 1 One Beginning, Two Trials5 Forgers and Co. Incrimination by the Gang 1 Lads from the Docks (1) 2 The Steamer from Trebizond 3 Traces of Companionship 4 Lads from the Docks (2) 5 V'sîl'kî, Sûrepa, Migirdîc, and the Gang6 Confecting Is Conceiving Conviction by Instruments 1 The Idle-Handed 2 Forever Tinkering, Forever Trying7 The Work of Interrogation 1 The Question 2 Pressure 3 To Summarize Afterword: Making the Most of Fakes Appendix 1: Facsimiles and Transliterations Appendix 2: Analytical Table Bibliography Index of Operations Index of Terms & Phrases.