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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 ...
The Green Vault (German: Grünes Gewölbe; pronounced [ˈɡʁyːnəs ɡəˈʋœlbə]) is a museum located in Dresden, Germany, which contains the largest treasure collection in Europe. [1] The museum was founded in 1723 by Augustus the Strong of Poland and Saxony , and features a variety of exhibits in styles from Baroque to Classicism .
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 ...
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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.
$3 million in newly minted American double eagle coins sent to the Russian Baltic Fleet, an $800,000 US Government shipment in mixed coin to the American Atlantic Fleet, and the confirmed loss of $500,000 in passenger effects (all 1909 values) were lost when the RMS Republic foundered off the coast of New England as a result of a collision.
The Birthday of the Grand Mughal Aurangzeb, now on display in Dresden's Green Vault, [6] with 137 modelled enamelled and jewel-encrusted [7] figures of men and animals, which Dinglinger commenced without a specific commission, and sold to the delighted Elector for a spectacular 55,485 thaler. [8]