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At the press conference, Keating spoke of nameless middlemen who turned up at his cottage to buy fakes for ten or 20 pounds, which, signed, turned up in galleries with fancy provenances. "Did you know it is an art trade practice to sign paintings?" he charged. "There must be someone who goes round the galleries once a month called Jim the Penman."
After Keating stepped forward, the British Antique Dealers Association, somewhat shaken, appointed a special investigating committee. Keating, with no charges lodged against him, took off for Europe, where he plans to work on his memoirs with Geraldine Norman's husband.