DELTA (NEWS1130) – Delta Police are hoping you’ll keep an eye out for a piece of valuable art that may end up sold online or at a flea market.
Constable Ciaran Feenan says a 200-year-old Japanese “Kakejiku” wall hanging scroll — a family heirloom — was stolen from a home during a break-in mid-August.
“We believe that it has quite a significant value to it. A dollar figure, I don’t know. However, we think that the value is more for the family and what it means to them,” says Feenan.
It was stolen from a home on Sunwood Drive near 64th Avenue.
The scroll is about six feet tall and two feet wide. It has wood on the top and bottom; the rest is made of thick Japanese paper. Oil paint depicts a landscape scene with a man looking up at a mountain. On the bottom left corner, Japanese characters are stamped in red ink.
If you know where the scroll is, you’re asked to call Delta Police at (604) 946-4411 or Crime Stoppers at 1-800-222-8477.
Centuries-old Japanese scroll stolen from home in Delta
Family hopes the heirloom will be found
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