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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 ... Only the crown jewel of the collection, the Dresden Green Diamond, was missed. Considered one of the purest diamonds ever ...
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 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 .
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In the same year, jewels worth US$ 1.2 billion were stolen in a heist from the Green Vault in Dresden Castle, Germany; along with other treasures, the 49-carat rose cut Dresden White Diamond, which was made into an epaulette during the Seven Years' War of 1756 AD, was stolen.
More than 1,500 police officers conducted a series of raids in Berlin and arrested three people in a massive operation to catch the robbers behind a stunning heist of 18th-century jewels from ...