What beats me is the motivation of the faker. Forgery is only profitable if it can be scaled up [as in the old £1 coins] or the item sells for a lot of £££ [as in an impressionist painting]. But the subject of this thread fits into neither category. He cleared perhaps £200 after costs. He can't pull the same stunt again for a long time to come, or he'll blow his cover. To research, fake up and age a piece of paper like this must take hours. And, setting up a print run for only a few documents can't be cheap. I reckon since there's no monetary profit in this kind of fakery, it must be done for some kind of dark psychological motive... any other rational explanation?
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