Burst
Written by: Ling Yide
2020-09-17 11:25
Last update date: 2020-09-17 11:25
Last Thursday (10th) a commercial and residential building at 510 Nathan Road, Yau Ma Tei. Collector Fu Chunxiao’s Mao Zedong calligraphy and painting stamps were stolen in the unit. After counting, the lost stamps and calligraphy and paintings were found, with a claimed value of 4 billion yuan .
Today (17th) Hong Kong 01 reporter asked Fu Chunxiao about the incident. A man who claimed to be Secretary Fu Chunxiao listened to the phone. He called himself Mr. Fu a temporary phone call.
The man said that Fu Chunxiao was hit hard after the incident and he is currently in a hospital in the Mainland, but it is not convenient for Fu to reveal the latest news.
Regarding whether the Hong Kong police and the mainland public security departments have contacted Fu Chunxiao and explained the case after the incident, he said that the case is still under investigation and it is inconvenient to disclose. "You have to ask the Hong Kong police in this regard. Thank you for your concern."
The incident occurred last Thursday (September 10). The famous stamp collector Fu Chunxiao was located in a commercial and residential building at 510 Nathan Road, Yau Ma Tei. The iron gate and wooden door of his unit were opened. A batch of Fu Chunxiao's stamps and calligraphy and painting were stolen. .
Afterwards, Fu Chunxiao said he felt sad and painful, and said that the case had been handed over to the police for investigation.
After the incident, Fu Chunxiao’s daughter arrived in Hong Kong. After counting, it was found that a batch of stamps and calligraphy and paintings were lost, including a 2m long poem written by Mao Zedong and worth 2 billion yuan, and another batch of 20 or 30 pieces. A total of about 2 billion calligraphy and painting, and a batch of stamps including "The National Mountains and Rivers Are Red", are said to be worth about 20 million.
As for all the collections, the total value is about 4 billion yuan.
A police spokesman stated that a security report was received on the evening of September 10 that a unit at 512 Nathan Road, Yau Ma Tei was burgled.
Police officers arrived at the scene and found that some calligraphy, paintings and stamps had been stolen. The quantity and value are still being counted.
The case was classified as a burglary and was handed over to officers from the Crime Squad of Yau Tsim Police District. No one has been arrested yet.
According to the information, Fu Chunxiao was born in Sichuan. He was the editor-in-chief of "Guangzhou Philately" magazine and "China Philately" magazine in Hong Kong. He is currently the vice president of the Hong Kong Chinese Heritage Conservation Association and a member of the Hong Kong Philatelic Society.
He mainly collected government documents from the Soviet period.
Fu Chunxiao also collected a large number of Mao Zedong's brushes. At the Hong Kong Stamp Exhibition in 2018, Fu exhibited 200 pieces of Mao Zedong's stamps in his collection.
In addition, Fu Zeng said in an interview from the mainland that the collection of red literature is more active in the mainland collection market and has attracted the attention of academia and collection circles.
Four billion Mao Zedong calligraphy and painting stamps stolen from Yau Ma Tei apartment, collector Fu Chunxiao: So sad
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