The Nest, The Forger, and the Missing Reclining Woman
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The Nest, The Forger, and the Missing Reclining Woman
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A meter reader stopped mid-route to photograph a house finch nest tucked into a coffee-mug-sized hollow on the left shoulder of a bronze torso - a concavity that should not have existed and that exposed a forgery scheme tied to a trusted museum registrar. How did a retained casting mold, a nine-year professional relationship, and a key to a maintenance gate turn fifteen promised sculptures into copies and one reclining woman into a missing original?
In this episode, we tell how a routine meter reading and intake photographs became the crucial evidence in a theft from a public garden collection, and we follow the chronology from Elspeth Crane’s bequest to the discovery that at least three of her fifteen bronzes had been replaced - where did the originals go?
Person: Elspeth Crane
Date: March 2019 (death)
Event: Bequest of fifteen Howard Webb bronzes to the Portsmith public garden
Person: Donna Pryce (registrar and conservator)
Date: November 14, 2019 (discovery by Carl Zimmerman)
- Carl Zimmerman stopped and photographed the nest at 9:17 AM on November 14, 2019, while on the Haverford Heights route.
- Elspeth Crane owned fifteen Howard Webb bronzes and died at age 78 in March 2019.
- The installation was completed by late August 2019 and a dedication was scheduled for November 16, 2019.
- Donna Pryce had a nine-year professional relationship with Howard Webb and signed off on the fifteen bronzes at intake in August, photographing and recording their condition.
- By the morning of November 14, 2019, at least three of Crane’s fifteen pieces had been replaced with copies made from retained molds, and one original reclining female figure already had a buyer.
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