Wisconsin Lawsuit Could Potentially Spawn Investigations of John Lennon Art Work and Collectible Sales

This weekend saw the start of an interesting, possibly wide spread legal movement coming out of an unlikely place, the small city of Waukesha, Wisconsin. As the Journal Sentinel reports, it’s there that David Peterson lives, a collector who has just filed a lawsuit against a collectibles dealer in Hawaii for selling him inauthentic work by John Lennon that had been presented as completely authentic originals. Peterson has spent close to $200,000 on art, supposedly originally created by the musician, as well as miscellaneous memorabilia, only to recently start discovering that many of the pieces the dealer sold him were either reproductions or outright fakes.