original finish

The first adventure begins at a Tacoma, Washington, auction house where a three-shell mahogany kneehole desk bearing the label of the 18th century Rhode Island craftsman, John Townsend, is exposed as a brilliant forgery. When Wally Winchester, an expert in Gustav Stickley's works and the Arts and Crafts movement, travels north into rural British Columbia's Vancouver Island to interview the tainted consignor, he pulls at a thread that could unravel a global scheme to flood the antique market...