Posted on 10/07/2020 7:48:47 AM PDT by DUMBGRUNT
A police insider said the buyer of the stolen artwork paid just HK$500 for the piece and believed it was a counterfeit Meanwhile, one of three burglars involved in the heist has been arrested along with a friend after a raid on a Yau Ma Tei residence
A calligraphy scroll by Mao Zedong said to be worth HK$2.3 billion part of a haul stolen last month from the Hong Kong flat of a renowned collector was torn into two pieces after being resold for a few hundred dollars to a man who thought it was a counterfeit, the Post has learned.
When asked why the artwork was cut into two pieces, Senior Superintendent Tony Ho Chun-tung of the Organised Crime and Triad Bureau, said: Someone thought the calligraphy was too long 2.8 metres in length and it was difficult to show and display it. Thats why it was cut half" When asked why the artwork was cut into two pieces, Senior Superintendent Tony Ho Chun-tung of the Organised Crime and Triad Bureau, said: Someone thought the calligraphy was too long 2.8 metres in length and it was difficult to show and display it. Thats why it was cut half
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But he could paint an entire apartment in one afternoon....TWO COATS!
“But he could paint an entire apartment in one afternoon....TWO COATS!”
“Let me tell you this! And you’re getting it straight from the horse. Hitler was better looking than Churchill, he was a better dresser than Churchill, he had more hair and he told funnier jokes and he could dance the pants off of Churhill!”
another quote from the well known Hiter expert, Franz Liebkind.
I still like the old spelling. Mao tse Tung
And since Pinyin was designed for the Chinese, it uses some Roman letters in ways we never would like the letter Q standing for a ch sound. Chungking becomes Chongqing.
As for your initial thought, I tend to agree. Mao, a great monster of the 20th century.
Well, I’ve never been to Spain........................
Probably for the same reason some crap photo by Dmitry Medvedev sold for $1.75 million. It's worth what a wealthy person is willing to pay to buy favor with the rulers. No one's buying favor with Hitler.
Everything is gonna be alright.
“Stolen Mao Zedong calligraphy said to be worth billions torn in half by unwitting Hong Kong buyer”
isn’t that what Scotch Tape is for?
Hehe, good point!
Good memory! That oddball was always popping up, the paranoid pest...
And each is worth $500,000,000, I guess...
NBD...
HK$ = 13 cents US................
Dang!
There are lots of things I could do with 500-million but (according to both of my K+E slide rules) 65-million would not cover most of the things I want to buy...
Life sucks, sometimes...
Snicker...
K+E slide rule.................... I had one of those once....................
...or, if your cat is a Chicom, Mousey-Tongue.
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