The German state of Saxony, the owner of the Green Vault museum in the eastern city of Dresden, carried no insurance on the jewels stolen on Monday.
A days after burglars made off with priceless jewels from a German museum, pressure is growing on police to find the culprits. One big reason: The diamond-encrusted dagger, pearl necklace and dozens of other glittering artifacts — estimated to be worth more than $1 billion by the local press — were uninsured.
While public museums usually insure works of art that are lent to other institutions, they often don’t take out policies on their permanent collections, according to Julia Ries, head of fine art and jewelry at insurer Ergo Group AG. “The budgets of public museums are limited,” Ries said. “You can’t replace such a collection from a monetary or art-historic value. If the jewels aren’t recovered, this part of the collection will be lost forever.”The lack of insurance was revealed as more details of the theft early Monday became clear. Police believe the burglars set a fire nearby to create a power outage, then broke a window to enter the museum.
Even as the scale of the loss became clear, some good news emerged: The thieves weren’t able to rip out all of the jewelry, some of which was sewn onto the fabric that lines the display cases. And one of the museum’s best known treasures, the 41-carat Dresden Green Diamond, is on loan to New York’s
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