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culture13 hours ago•3 min saved

Vienna Heist: Million-Dollar Necklace Stolen From MAK After Ticketed Entry

Two men entered Vienna's Museum of Applied Arts (MAK) by buying tickets, smashed a display case and fled with a 200-carat platinum-and-diamond Van Cleef & Arpels necklace worth millions; they were not masked and were captured on surveillance cameras. The piece, part of a Van Cleef & Arpels exhibition with about 500 items, had been on display since June and the wing reopened shortly after the theft as investigators probe the incident.

via Euronews.com|

#culture #jewelry-theft #mak-museum

world19 hours ago•2 min saved

Vienna museum smash-and-grab steals 200-carat necklace linked to Egyptian royalty

Austrian police are hunting two men who smashed a display case at Vienna’s MAK museum and stole a 200-carat platinum necklace encrusted with 673 diamonds that had been loaned from a Van Cleef & Arpels exhibition and once belonged to Queen Nazli of Egypt; the heist occurred during opening hours with no injuries reported, and the necklace—dating to 1939 and previously sold for $4.3 million at Sotheby’s—is part of a broader surge in violent European art thefts.

via The Guardian|

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