Art fraudster caught out by his dodgy spelling

An art fraudster who tried to sell fake sculptures for up to £680,000 was caught out by the typeface on his forged paperwork, a court heard. Andrew Crowley, 46, submitted invoices for the statues that he claimed were written in 1976 – but the typeface was only invented in 2001. The fraudster had also not bothered to correct his spelling mistakes. Crowley has asked London auction house Sotheby’s to sell three stone Cycladic figures purportedly from the Cyclades islands in…