On Tuesday, March 5, business cablenet CNBC expands its prime-time brand with the premiere of "Treasure Detectives."
Expert Curtis Dowling and his team of investigators seek the facts behind collectibles, artwork and antiquities using high-tech science, innovative technology and street smarts to discover if they're sophisticated forgeries or true collectors' items.
They not only trace an item's origin and manufacture but also, if it is a fake, how the deception was accomplished.
"Thomas Hoving, at the Metropolitan Museum of Art," Dowling tells Zap2it, "said 40 percent of all his art collection was fake. He just wished he knew which 40 percent it was. And that's a fair indicator, to be honest, of the art world.
"When you get called to look at these things, the first thing people say is, 'Nothing I've got is fake.' All of a sudden, you start going through that collection of porcelain or paintings or baseball cards or whatever,...
Expert Curtis Dowling and his team of investigators seek the facts behind collectibles, artwork and antiquities using high-tech science, innovative technology and street smarts to discover if they're sophisticated forgeries or true collectors' items.
They not only trace an item's origin and manufacture but also, if it is a fake, how the deception was accomplished.
"Thomas Hoving, at the Metropolitan Museum of Art," Dowling tells Zap2it, "said 40 percent of all his art collection was fake. He just wished he knew which 40 percent it was. And that's a fair indicator, to be honest, of the art world.
"When you get called to look at these things, the first thing people say is, 'Nothing I've got is fake.' All of a sudden, you start going through that collection of porcelain or paintings or baseball cards or whatever,...
- 3/5/2013
- by editorial@zap2it.com
- Zap2It - From Inside the Box
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