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Dresden’s Green Vault museum became a crime scene following a November 2019 theft that included jewelry with a collective value of $121 million. On December 17, German authorities announced they had recovered 31 of the stolen items. Image courtesy of Wikimedia Commons, photo credit Bambizoe. Shared under the Creative Commons CC0 1.0 Universal Public Domain Dedication.

Part of haul from 2019 German museum jewelry heist recovered

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Dresden’s Green Vault museum became a crime scene following a November 2019 theft that included jewelry with a collective value of $121 million. On December 17, German authorities announced they had recovered 31 of the stolen items. Image courtesy of Wikimedia Commons, photo credit Bambizoe. Shared under the Creative Commons CC0 1.0 Universal Public Domain Dedication.

Dresden’s Green Vault museum became a crime scene following a November 2019 theft that included jewelry with a collective value of $121 million. On December 17, German authorities announced they had recovered 31 of the stolen items. Image courtesy of Wikimedia Commons, photo credit Bambizoe. Shared under the Creative Commons CC0 1.0 Universal Public Domain Dedication.

BERLIN (AP) – German authorities said December 17 that they have recovered a significant part of the 18th-century treasures stolen from Dresden’s Green Vault museum in a spectacular break-in more than three years ago.

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Bertoia’s presents fine European & American toys, holiday antiques Nov. 18-19

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VINELAND, N.J. – On November 18-19, family-owned Bertoia Auctions will conclude a record-setting year with the 2021 edition of every toy collector’s favorite event: their Annual Fall Sale, with absentee and Internet live bidding available through LiveAuctioneers. Always a beautiful presentation, the Fall Sale is reserved for genuinely exceptional toys and holiday antiques sourced from many high-quality collections. In the past, the Fall Sale has been described by the media as “a rare opportunity to purchase from the top shelves of dozens of high-end collectors.”

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German prosecutors charge 6 in spectacular Dresden jewelry heist

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A gallery at the Green Vault in Dresden, Germany. SwenS D image. This file is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 Unported license.

BERLIN (AP) – German prosecutors said Thursday that they have filed charges against six suspects in the spectacular theft of 18th-century jewels from a Dresden museum in 2019, accusing them of organized robbery and arson.

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