Unsuspecting buyers with repro documents

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Originally Posted by njsteve

Yes, they learned that half their paintings of Corvettes from the late 1800's were fake! Wonder how they figured it out? :-)

A museum in Japan had a curator who was found guilty of stealing rare oil paintings and replacing them with perfect forgeries that he painted himself. After he was sentenced , he agreed to identify the paintings that he forged. He found several that were perfect fakes, but not his work. Turns out that someone else was doing the same thing at the same time!