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They then sold it at a fraction of its value. It was apparently cut up as the 2.8m-long scroll was deemed too long to display, said Hong Kong police.The scroll, which contains stanzas of poetry handwritten by the founder of the People's Republic of China, is estimated to be worth around $300m by its owner.
The thieves sold one of the pieces to another art collector for just HK$500 to a purchaser who, according to The South China Morning Post, believed the artwork was a fake.
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What’s the problem? It’s just a pc of communist propaganda. Use cellophane tape to tape the back 😂 ... more real arts were destroyed during the cultural revolution
Half price?
Half order please.
He was a despot responsible for the deaths of tens of millions. I kind of get it.
Now they will never know what he wrote
That's not good that's not good
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