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Eric BI'm sure the story was picked up by an editor and given to a reporter to run with for the next day's edition since it involved a local collector. And several papers ran similar stories.
But alledgedly the collector was really trying to dupe an unsuspecting person. First by coming up with the fake and then saying it was worth millions when a creased example would be around $200K. I guess the buyer would be happy if it only went to $150K.
What I really would like to know is if the collector was in on the alledged scam or not. Maybe the dealer was the one who made out and the collector was just greedy and couldn't see the forest because of the trees.
Anyway, David, that's a great site for fakes in general but what I think would be better is a picture of the fake alongside a real one.