The Dry Crate at Slip Nine: How a Fisherman Stopped a $2.9M Forgery
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The Dry Crate at Slip Nine: How a Fisherman Stopped a $2.9M Forgery
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A fisherman found a crate wedged at Slip Nine with a bone-dry canvas inside despite a soaked night - a tiny, odd detail that exposed an eighteen-month forgery scheme involving a painting valued at nearly $2.9 million. How did a dry canvas in a soaked crate become the single clue that unraveled a swap between a climate-controlled storage facility and a reproduced masterpiece?
In this episode, we tell the sequence of events from the morning Norman Thompson found the crate to the logged inspection at Brennan Cold Storage and the swap that followed, mapping the roles of the assistant registrar, the reproducer, and the harbor where the crate reappeared - but who intended the switch and why did one inconsistency topple the plan?
Person: Norman Thompson
Person: Patricia Howe
Person: Clifford Bauer
Date: September 4, 2019 (crate found) and September 3, 2019 (inspection)
Value: $2.4 million conservative estimate; painting worth nearly $2.9 million
- The crate was found wedged against the pilings at Slip Nine, Kessler Slough, Dellmore, New Jersey before six a.m, on September 4, 2019.
- Norman Thompson photographed the crate from three angles and called the Dellmore Harbor Authority.
- The original Elias Cord harbor scene was oil on canvas, circa 1911, roughly 24 by 30 inches.
- Patricia Howe, 53, signed into Brennan Cold Storage at 7:41 p.m. on September 3, 2019 and inspected the consigned Cord painting.
- Clifford Bauer spent 16 months creating the reproduction using period-appropriate materials and hand-built craquelure.
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