Banksy robbers
Mural hacked off wall set to sell for £450k
Hit … Banksy’s Slave Labour mural on wall
By ADAM FAULKNER and CHRIS POLLARD
Banksy Slave Labour (Bunting Boy) was stolen at night last week.
A BANKSY painting is set to fetch up to £450,000 after it was mysteriously hacked off a shop wall and put on a US auction website.
Banksy Slave Labour (Bunting Boy) was stolen at night last week.
The mural — which shows a young boy hunched over a sewing machine making Union Jack bunting — then appeared on the US-based Fine Art Auctions Miami site.
The “unique street work”, which had been stencilled on to Poundland in Wood Green, North London, last year, is up for £250,000 but is expected to sell for nearly double that.