Walt Whitman's Paper: Un Authentic Works Of Art

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Investigators and people who are trying to locate lost or stolen art struggle to find authentic works of art with so many un authentic art being posed as real art. When meeting with sellers to find out if they do have the "real deal" people like Mashburg leave disappointed, The seller usually try to sell replicas to buyers or to the FBI. They can tell if it's authentic by the paint used on the art that most seller are ignorant about. With people attempting to sell fake works of art, trust and suspicion is built between buyers and sellers.

The stealing of Walt Whitman's papers became a national search, But before all that happen. In 1942 when World War II was fresh on the scene the Library of congress took it upon themselves to send some national

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