A Kaitaia man hoping to sell items that belonged to an infamous New Zealand art forger believes he has the biggest Goldie collection in the world.
He means works by the late Carl Feodor Goldie, the copyist who changed his name from Karl Feodor Sim, not the early New Zealand portraitist Charles Frederick Goldie.
After a forgery conviction in 1985 for selling his copies as original paintings, Sim changed his name so he could legally sign his work as CF Goldie.
The Kaitaia vendor of the memorabilia, who asked to be identified only as Peter, had hoped for $120,000 in an on-line auction for the items that Goldie/Sim's sister gave him after the famous forger died in 2013, aged 89.
No bids were made at all in the auction but Peter said he will relist the collection soon.