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On 25 November 2019, royal jewellery was stolen from the Green Vault museum within Dresden Castle in Dresden, Saxony, Germany.The stolen items included the 49-carat Dresden White Diamond, the diamond-laden breast star of the Polish Order of the White Eagle which belonged to the King of Poland, a hat clasp with a 16-carat diamond, a diamond epaulette, and a diamond-studded hilt containing nine ...
The Real Grift Behind the Green Vault Heist Dresden State Art ... In 2017 they had pilfered a coin of solid gold that weighed 220 pounds and was worth $4.4 million called the Big Maple Leaf ...
Nearly all of the jewels from Dresden’s dramatic Green Vault heist in 2019 will once again be on display in their original location. Five years after a $124-million museum heist shocked the ...
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The Historic Green Vault has approximately 3,000 pieces of jewelry on display, including works in gold, amber, and ivory. Gemstone vessels and bronze statuettes are on display without showcases, in front of mirrored display walls. [12] The Historic Green Vault is located on the first floor of Dresden Castle, and spans roughly 2,000 square metres.
The Dresden White Diamond (also known as Dresden White or the Saxon White) is a 62-carat (12.4 g) cushion-cut diamond [1] that probably originated from the Golconda mines in Southern India. [ 1 ] The Dresden White's name is derived from Dresden , the capital city of Saxony , Germany , and from the gem's white color.
They are suspected of breaking into Dresden's Gruenes Gewoelbe (Green Vault) Museum in the early hours of Nov. 25, 2019, and stealing 21 pieces of jewellery containing more than 4,300 diamonds ...
The stone's unique apple green color is due to natural exposure to radioactive materials, as the irradiation of diamonds can produce changes in color. The Dresden Green Diamond has been used to compare natural versus lab-produced green diamonds — it is hoped that it can be used to devise a test to differentiate between naturally green diamonds, which are quite rare, and lab-produced ones.