![]() ![]() Many of Wittman’s anecdotes and lessons were drawn from his 2010 memoir, “Priceless: How I Went Undercover to Rescue the World’s Stolen Treasures. Each of the pieces had been smuggled out, at the rate of about one piece a day, by a Philadelphia Historical Society employee. Priceless How I Went Undercover to Rescue the Worlds Stolen Treasures by Bob Wittman available in Hardcover on, also read synopsis and reviews. Their investigation led them to a man who had not three but nearly 200 individual artifacts. In one instance, Wittman and his team were looking for three Civil War-era swords that had gone missing from the Philadelphia Historical Society. Wittman, the author of a best-selling memoir about his years as the FBIs senior art crimes investigator, will be in Central Florida May 10 to share the. Martinez even created fake certifications of authenticity.įrequently, it was the audacity of the thieves in Wittman’s stories that was the most incredible. ![]() Rising from humble roots as the son of an antiques dealer, Wittman built a twenty-year career that was nothing short of extraordinary. In the 1980s, a man named Alfredo Martinez forged Jean-Michel Basquiat paintings on a massive scale. Wittman, the founder of the FBI’s Art Crime Team, pulls back the curtain on his career for the first time. The armor currently sits in a museum unaccompanied by any information, Wittman added, to dramatize the permanent effects of looting.įorgery is misrepresenting the origins or creator of an artifact. ![]() ![]() At one point during his career, Wittman investigated and uncovered a 2,000 year-old piece of Peruvian armor stolen from a tomb. ![]()
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