The Quiet Substitution: How a Small Dutch Master Disappeared
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The Quiet Substitution: How a Small Dutch Master Disappeared
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A single phone photograph taken on December 11, 2019 captured a small 17th-century Dutch interior hanging alone in a stripped Caldwell, Ohio parlor - and eleven days later that original painting had vanished, replaced by a meticulously crafted counterfeit with a mirrored pewter jug. How did a decades-old dealer’s quiet acquisition become the center of a two-year engineered substitution that hinged on a four-centimeter mirror error?
In this episode, we follow the sequence of events from the estate sale to the replacement and eventual unravelling, outlining who handled the painting, what evidence mattered, and how a single photograph became pivotal. What did investigators learn from the mirrored jug and the forged paperwork that finally exposed the substitution?
Person: Howard Getz
Date: December 11, 2019
Location: Caldwell, Ohio
Event: Estate sale Lot 47 sold for €400 in cash
Person: Marilyn Brooks
- The genuine Lot 47 was catalogued as a 17th-century Dutch interior, oil on panel, in an early 18th-century gilded limewood frame with a pewter jug left of center.
- Lot 47 sold at the November 2019 estate sale for 400 euros in cash to a buyer who signed as K. Braddock; Kevin Braddock received 16 euros commission.
- Brian Morgan photographed the painting in an empty parlor on December 11, 2019; that photograph became the single most important piece of evidence.
- The counterfeit painting that later appeared had the pewter jug positioned four centimeters to the right of center - a mirror reversal indicating the forger worked from a photograph.
- The fake came with three forged documents: a 1933 Belgian sale record, a shipping manifest, and a typed appraisal letter dated 1961; the fake later sold in Philadelphia to a Texas collector for $140,000.
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