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The Dry Sheet in the Wet Grass: How a Million-Dollar Folio Vanished

The Dry Sheet in the Wet Grass: How a Million-Dollar Folio Vanished

A dry seventeenth-century chart lay alone under an overpass while the grass around it was still wet-the first strange sign in a theft that turned on precise timing and a missing folio leaf. How did a document worth between $1.2 and $1.8 million vanish from a trusted dealer’s custody without a clear trail?

In this episode, we follow the sequence of actions, dates, transfers and people that led from a Fenner Street shop to a county overpass, and we ask how a private habit, a debt, and a payment schedule combined to create the…

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