An antiques dealer duped unsuspecting collectors by forging the signatures in books of famous writers such as Sir Winston Churchill and Robert Louis Stevenson, a court heard.
Allan Formhals found the books and magazines in car boot sales and a recycling centre, added the signature and then sold them on eBay as the real thing, Southampton Crown Court heard.
He made thousands of pounds defrauding collectors from as far afield as Texas in the US after also lying about the provenance of the items, the court was told.
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