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Oops. A $25 etching its owner thought might be an original Rembrandt has turned out to be just another pretty picture. Dale Sayre of Enid, Okla., got the bad news Tuesday from Sotheby’s in New York that his copy of Rembrandt’s “Christ Healing the Sick” is only a reproduction--after Sayre had gone on ABC’s “Good Morning America” to tell his tale. “I was real disappointed, boy,” Sayre said. He got the idea that he had stumbled across an original from William Riggs, director of the Goddard Art Museum at Ardmore, Okla., and even turned down an offer of $16,000 for it from a car salesman. Riggs said he regretted the matter. “Now we all have egg on our faces,” he said.

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