Three people were sentenced in Hong Kong to up to two and a half years in prison for stealing an autographed piece by Mao Zedong and then, unaware of its value, reselling it for a sum equivalent to less than 25 euros. Not even the buyer, reports the BBC, realized how much the find was worth, so much so that he cut it in two to be able to place it more comfortably among the pieces already in his possession.
The paper contains details of a meeting of the Chinese Communist Party and parts of a poem written by Mao himself and was stolen in September 2020 with other memorabilia from the home of a well-known Hong Kong collector, Fuu Chunxiao. The buyer, having seen an appeal by the police, spontaneously surrendered to the authorities with the two parts of the document and thus had the thieves arrested. In 2019, another original Mao writing was auctioned at Sotheby’s for over half a million pounds.
Source: Ansa
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