Fancy Galleries, Fake Art
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What Happened to the Paintings?
Gretchen and her mam looked at the paintings closely, studying them. Gretchen didn't come right out with what she was thinking because we were advised early on never to say anything. Court records show that the gallery made forty five thousand dollars on bernard's fake dibbincorn - a profit margin of 90%. Glafira learned that in two thousand and three years one of the fakes would have been more than three million dollars. The art world is notoriously unregulated compared to the markets for guns and drugs.
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