7. Henry Moore – ‘Reclining Figure’
Desirable as a source of scrap metal. This well known sculpture was stolen in 2005 by thieves who used a crane and a stolen truck to remove the sculpture from the Henry Moore Foundation grounds in Much Hadham, Hertfordshire, sparking a global search for the culprits. The sculpture was worth around £5m, and police believe that the internationally known sculpture was cut up and melted down for around £1,500 in scrap metal.