Open Door, Perfect Forgery: How a Breeze Unmasked a $600k Swap
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Open Door, Perfect Forgery: How a Breeze Unmasked a $600k Swap
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A single May breeze and an open side door undone fourteen months of meticulous planning: a near-perfect 1891 Thomas Breck painting was swapped and hung for six days before anyone noticed. How did an ordinary morning, an overlooked user account and a forensic glue match expose a scheme that aimed to sell a forged canvas for close to $600,000?
In this episode, we tell the sequence of what happened at the Delmare Civic Art Museum, how the provenance file grew to eleven documents, and how investigators pieced together the timeline from a boy's paper route to a conservator's routine visit - could a drifting door and an unused login be the weak link in a multimillion-dollar fraud?
Date: May 9, 2011
Person: Melvin Griffin
Artist: Thomas Breck
Location: Delmare Civic Art Museum, Delmare, Ohio
Appraisal: $450,000-$600,000
- The side door was discovered open at 6:40 AM on May 9, 2011 by 14-year-old Melvin Griffin.
- The painting Inlet at Dusk was completed in 1891 and measures 44 by 30 inches.
- The museum's appraisal in 2011 valued the work between $450,000 and $600,000.
- The provenance file contained eleven documents, where typically two or three would suffice.
- Eight documents were inserted in April 2009 using login credentials of a registrar who had left the museum in 2008.
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