Oct 15, 2009
A Da Vinci?
Art collector Peter Silverman may have stumbled into the find—and investment—of the decade. In 2007 he purchased an unattributed drawing, thought to be “German, early 19th century”, for $19,000. Further analysis—including carbon dating and fingerprint analysis of a partial on the drawing itself—suggests it may be an early Da Vinci drawing, worth tens of millions of dollars.
Full story in The Daily Telegraph.