The Missing Page: How a River Revealed a $300K Forgery
The Missing Page: How a River Revealed a $300K Forgery
Danger hides in plain sight: a single cream-colored sheet of eighteenth-century paper washed up on the Calder River, bearing a faint watermark and the delicate ink hatching of a map appraised at up to $300,000-so how did page 47 of a sealed folio end up pinned to a sycamore root three miles below Oreville? What small error unpicked an expertly executed forgery that had already passed visual authentication?
In this episode, we tell how a retired schoolteacher's walk, a security installer's lingering access, and a conservator's invisible…
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