The Replica on the Wall: How a Masterpiece Vanished Unnoticed
The Replica on the Wall: How a Masterpiece Vanished Unnoticed
The small-town calm shattered when a fishing line pulled a museum crate from the Minter River - the crate bore a laminated condition report for a nineteenth-century painting, but the canvas was missing. How did a forgery hang in plain sight for thirteen months while the original slipped away with what looked like flawless paperwork?
In this episode, we walk through the discovery at the Raeford Museum of Regional History and the Caulfield Heritage Center, the technical conservation tests that exposed a painted grid and an altered…
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