The Quiet Swap: How Four Priceless Enamels Vanished Undetected
The Quiet Swap: How Four Priceless Enamels Vanished Undetected
The calm of museum routine hid a $2.4 million theft: four eighteenth-century Lyon enamel panels were replaced with near-perfect forgeries and traveled through five venues for fourteen months without raising alarm. How did skilled paperwork and one unexpected signature let priceless originals vanish unnoticed?
In this episode, we follow the chain of custody, the people who handled the crates, and the moment a maintenance worker first sensed something was off - then learn how condition reports and tour logistics failed to catch the…
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