In two dingy printing shops in lower Manhattan, U.S. Secret Service agents last fortnight "discovered" the work of a most gifted artist. The artist himself was not on hand; indeed, he will prefer to remain nameless as long as he can, for he is responsible for one of the prettiest feats of counterfeiting since Jim the Penman.
This remarkable draftsman, the agents found, had made the cleverest copy of the Great Seal of the United States that they had ever seen. He had made his almost perfect copy of the U.S. spread-eagle not once but 90 times, on a 10 x 18-inch...
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