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The Spoonmaker's Diamond (Turkish: Kaşıkçı Elması) is an 86 carat (17.2g) pear-shaped diamond in the Imperial Treasury exhibitions at the Topkapi Palace Museum in Istanbul, Turkey, and its most valuable single exhibit. It is considered the fourth largest diamond of its kind in the world.
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The Iranian crown jewels are among the largest, most dazzling and valuable jewel collection in the world. [citation needed] The jewels are displayed in the vaults of the Central Bank of Iran in Tehran, [when?] and are one of the most appealing tourist attractions in Iran.
Nearly all of the jewels from Dresden’s dramatic Green Vault heist in 2019 will once again be on display ... Five years after a $124-million museum heist shocked the world, recovered jewels ...
Designed by architects Marie-Therese Harnoncourt-Fuchs and Ernst Fuchs, [7] the museum opened to the public in 2022. [8] Following Horten's death, her jewellery collection was being auctioned by Christie's in May 2023. [9] The auction set a record for the most valuable single collection of jewels, fetching CHF 180 million (US$201 million).
Affiliated with the Central Bank of Iran, it stores and exhibits the Iranian National Jewels as their legal custodian. [3] In the 1930s, the collection grew so valuable that it was used as a reserve for the currency of Iran, [4] and is today considered one of world's famous collections of diamond and other jewels. [5]
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.
The items, ranging from valuable jewels to 13th-century temple carvings, were officially handed back to Indonesia at a ceremony at the Museum Volkenkunde in Leiden. “We are really delighted.