article_snippet.sent: In 1986 John Potter fibbed that John Potter was at a yard sale when John Potter found the photograph in an antique frame.
article_snippet.sent: The picture Mr Potter handed over to the Georgia Historical Society was actually a picture of a picture.
article_snippet.sent: In 1986 John Potter fibbed that he was at a yard sale when he found the photograph in an antique framethe photograph .
article_snippet.sent: Mr Potter has now admitted the sham and explained how Mr Potter falsified the image.
article_snippet.sent: Mr Potter also used an illustration of the ironclad Mr Potter found on a postcard.
article_snippet.sent: Evidence of the hoax: All elements of the fakery were snapped by Mr Potter at one time.
article_snippet.sent: Then Potter's younger brother drove 120 miles to a yard sale in Waycross, Georgia, put the picture down and took a Polaroid of the picture.
article_snippet.sent: Mr Potter sent out another photo of the 2-foot model to historical groups, setting off the sporadic, and fruitless, search for a CSS Georgia photo that Mr Potter now says never existed.