THE DECCA LEGACY - Wootton Bridge Historical

His response was to scramble jet fighters and a attack but as the aircraft approached, the lights split from
the circle and noiselessly sped away much faster than aircraft ever could - “Whoosh”.
The day we were about to leave Chile, we said our goodbyes to the General at his office and were
walking for the last time down those marble stairs when the General’s Aid came rushing to me with a
crude cardboard box in which was the Mohai statue. He said “The General wants you to take this Mr.
Milliner”.
We never did land the contract. Some other company abroad offered better financial terms. When I
returned home, I presented my wife with a Mohai in a rough cardboard box and it went down like a lead
balloon. “Don’t let that ugly thing near me“ sort of reaction. It found its use as a door stop in the garage
until one day when I was away on another jaunt my wife saw something on the telly which showed
things in quite a different light, some person owned two small Mohai statues and offered them to
Christies for auction. “Useless” was the response “but we will give it our best”. At auction the statues
sold for hundreds of thousands of pounds to the Museum of Ancient Art.
When I returned home, my Mohai was in pride of place freshly polished. This Mohai was bigger than the
ones sold and might even be more valuable. Christies was contacted and they suggested I write the
history and send them photographs with sizes, weights etc. After a short time they replied saying that
museum Curator had been advised, but they were only interested in ancient art. My Mohai was relatively
new and probably worthless. I still have my Mohai as a door stop.
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