A career criminal who stole a “historically unique” 350-year-old map from a museum has be… — @thetelegraph

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@thetelegraph's TikTok video "A career criminal who stole a “historically unique” 350-year-old map from a museum has been jailed for three years, after a judge accused him of causing an irreparable loss to international cultural heritage. Melvin West, 70, used a Stanley blade to cut one of 12 maps from an atlas printed in 1684 by Dutch cartographer Frederick de Wit. The missing map, Nova Orbis Tabula, is a celebrated double-hemisphere world map and has not been recovered. Woolwich Crown Court heard that West carried out reconnaissance at the Caird Library at the National Maritime Museum in Greenwich before stealing the map in February last year." has 2,937 views, 38 likes, 4 comments, 1 shares in the public metrics captured by this index. That is an engagement rate of 1.46% (likes, comments and shares over views). It was posted 6 days ago and runs 16 seconds. It has been saved 2 times.

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