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EXPERTS RUSHING TO SAVE LOST MICHELANGELO FROM BUFFALO HOME BEFORE IT BURNS DOWN
October 15 2010
Tonawanda, NY – Everything should have worked out really well in Buffalo. A manufacturing town along a major waterway when it was at its peak, Buffalo had a lot of advantages in those early days. However things didn’t work out and instead of 
becoming the next Toronto or Montreal, the city fell to the same fate as fellow Lake Erie habitants Cleveland and Detroit, rusting away as the economy of the country started to diversify and move away from manufacturing.
Now little more than the punch line of jokes, Buffalo has fallen far from its peak, living under the shadow of more successful cities and the hope that one day dignity can be returned to the city. Even one of the few signs of success, the beloved Buffalo Bills, have started to see an erosion in fan interest and thus begun to play home games in Toronto. Few expect that Buffalo will be the kind of success story that residents hope for, but new attention has shown the town to be a little more sophisticated than previously believed. The discovery of an apparent Michelangelo in a home from the area has brought international attention as experts try to determine the authenticity of the piece and safely extract it from the area before the house it is being held in inevitably burns to the ground.
“My goal has always been the integrity of the picture, security and trying to do the right thing. Getting the attention of these experts was very difficult to do but my chemical makeup as a retired fighter pilot, iron man triathlete, wasn't going to have me giving up on this,” said owner Martin Kober. “I have spent the last eight years doing exhaustive research on the painting and I can tell you absolutely that this is authentic. The painting has been in our family for a long time and it has always been accepted for what it is, but now I feel we have the proof to show the world.”
Experts are thus far torn on the authenticity of the painting, though all acknowledge that if the painting is genuine that it should be removed from the area immediately.
“There's never proof, unfortunately. You can do scientific analysis of the paint and the 
surface and the panel and all that tells you is we're dealing with something old from
the 16th century. If it does get restored and put on exhibition, I will be happy to give it a second chance,” said William Wallace, art history professor from Washington University in St Louis. “If it is genuine then it is clear that it needs to be displayed in a museum. Obviously the pay off will be huge but the most important thing is that we move it out of Buffalo, out of the Buffalo area entirely. I used to live in upstate New York and I can tell you that the number of fires reported every single night was extraordinary. There’s something in the water there and we need to get this painting out of that place.”
The painting is currently being stored in a bank vault, though that alone is not considered safe from fire in Buffalo.
“There’s something really off about the town, something very disjointed. It could be that many mid-sized cities like that with few jobs have the same kinds of problems, arsons and poor maintenance, but we don’t hear the same kind of stories from anywhere else, they seem to only hit Buffalo for some reason,” said Scrape TV South American analyst Walter Pereira. “I drove through that area once and we saw three sets of fire trucks going to different places. The place is a fire pit. I don’t know anything about rare paintings but if it’s worth a lot of money they would be best to get it out of that city.”
Four houses on Kober’s street have burned down in the last month.
Mike Michaels, American Correspondent
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