Excerpt from The Burlington Magazine for Connoisseurs, Vol. 1: March, 1903<br><br>In March 1903, in connection with a Pille forgery in which he was implicated, a certain M. Mayence Elina declared himself the maker of the too illustrious tiara. To advance the statement was easy: to prove it was more difficult. For some days the press was literally inundated with letters and interviews with M. Elina. Needless to say that the most barefaced lies came to contradict one another, and that, after the first shock caused by this bold declaration, public opinion recovered itself and obliged M. Elina to come forward as an amiable mystery-monger. All those whom he had accused easily proved the falseness of all his allegations, and the very dead Spoke; for, M. Elina having dragged the name of M. Spitzer into the business of the tiara, the Baron Coche, M. Spitzer's son-ih-law, contented himself with proving that his father-ih-law had died on April 23, 1890, five years before the Odyssey of the tiara.<br><br>About the Publisher<br><br>Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com<br><br>This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.