The River Returned What a Forger Tried to Hide: 1 of 200 Found
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The River Returned What a Forger Tried to Hide: 1 of 200 Found
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The chill of a January morning revealed a sealed tube that floated four miles down the Cassidy River carrying a single authentic lithograph from a numbered edition of two hundred - while the other 199 sat as convincing forgeries in a gallery flat file; how did one original end up hidden and then lost in a river? What unseen flaw in the scheme let a fisherman, a sheriff's office and a careful loupe unravel months of calculated deception?
In this episode, we present the sequence of events from discovery to investigation, describing how the tube was found, what experts observed under raking light, and the gaps that remain about dozens of missing originals; how did packaging, paper and a fisherman's routine expose the fraud?
Person: Robert Adair
Person: William Pryce
Location: Cassidy River, four miles south of Pelham, Indiana
Date: January 9, 2011
Event: Discovery of authentic lithograph sealed in a tube
- The tube floated four miles down the Cassidy River before snagging on a fisherman's trotline on January 9, 2011.
- The print was marked in pencil near the lower margin "5/200 - R. Adair" and measured eighteen by twenty-four inches.
- William Pryce, age seventy-four in 2010, had collected all two hundred prints over fifteen years, valuing the complete edition at $430,000.
- The gallery, Ashton Fine Works in Bloomington, had been in business for twenty-two years and was entrusted with Pryce's consignment in autumn 2010.
- Investigators found one authentic print recovered from the river while one hundred and ninety-nine inkjet reproductions remained in the gallery's flat files.
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