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Mother of all PH maps coming home

Mother of all PH maps coming home

For a man who relies on favorable odds to remain in business, the fact that the Mother of all Philippine maps was auctioned off at Sotheby s London on his mother s birthday sounded propitious enough. And so it was, although the P5 million businessman Mel Velasco Velarde had been prepared to cough up for the 1734 Murillo Velarde map soared to the final hammer price of P12 million after some furious bidding at that Nov. 4, 2014 auction. For the chief executive officer of the international digital technology company Now Corp. and chair of the Asian Institute of Journalism and Communication (AIJC) who prides himself on b…

Source: http://indonesia.shafaqna.com/EN/ID/711634-Mother-of-all-PH-maps-coming-home