Guide of The World's Most Valuable Missing Treasures: Fantastic Hidden Treasures Stolen or Missing from circa 200 to the 2010's
By Linda Mayers
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This book Includes :
- Nelson's Chelengk : A medal made of diamonds given to Admiral Horatio Nelson for his naval service. Placed in the National Maritime Museum in London in 1929 and stolen in 1951.
- Patiala Necklace : A necklace containing 2,930 diamonds including the world's seventh largest diamond, the 428 carat "De Beers", the Patiala Necklace vanished Royal Treasury of Patiala around 1948. Some diamonds later recovered. Made by the House of Cartier in 1928 for Bhupinder Singh of Patiala, then ruling Maharaja of Patiala.
- The Just Judges : Lower left panel of the Adoration of the Mystic Lamb, which was displayed at the Saint Bavo Cathedral in Ghent, Belgium, was stolen during the night of 10 April 1934.
- Treasure of the Esperanza : 1.5 million gold pesos and an equal value in silver precolumbian art looted from the Viceroyalty of Peru, shipped on the Esperanza, taken and buried by pirates shipwrecked on Palmyra Atoll.
- The Menorah from the Second Temple: The Menorah was looted by the Romans in 70 AD and put on view in the Temple of Peace in Rome. The temple burned down in 191 after which the fate of the Menorah is uncertain. If it survived the fire, it could have been brought to Carthage by the Vandals after their Sack of Rome in 455, as mentioned by Procopius in the 6th century.
- Yamashita's gold : War loot stolen by Japanese and hidden in the Philippines. Named for General Tomoyuki Yamashita.
- Nazi gold train and Walbrzych gold train : concerns a local legend of a Nazi Germany-era train buried in a tunnel underground in Lower Silesia in January 1945 toward the end of World War II. Many searches for the train have been conducted since World War II, especially by Koper and Richter in 2015-2016.
And many more.
Linda Mayers
MA in Archaeology, Linda Mayers is journalist in New Zealand.
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Guide of The World's Most Valuable Missing Treasures - Linda Mayers
CONTENTS
SCEPTER OF DAGOBERT
TREASURE OF THE ESPERANZA
THE JUST JUDGES
ROYAL CASKET
PEKING MAN
AMBER ROOM
PATIALA NECKLACE
NELSON'S CHELENGK
TUCKER'S CROSS
IVORY COAST CROWN JEWELS
BRUSSELS AIRPORT DIAMOND HEIST
MENORAH FROM THE SECOND TEMPLE
YAMASHITA'S GOLD
LLYWELYN'S CORONET
NAZI GOLD TRAIN
Scepter of Dagobert
Originally part of the French Crown Jewels, sometimes considered its oldest part, and dating from the 7th century, the scepter of Dagobert was stored in the treasure of the Basilica of Saint-Denis (also known as Basilique royale de Saint-Denis) until 1795, when it disappeared, stolen in the basilica and never seen again. Its name comes from Dagobert I (629-639), the French king for whom it was supposedly created by master goldsmith Éloi de Noyon, better known as Saint Eligius.
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Treasure of the
Esperanza
During the 19th and 20th centuries, stories circulated in the Pacific of a large treasure of gold , silver and pre cious stones (sometimes described as Inca treasures ) that had been looted in the Viceroyalty of Peru , in the Palmyra Atoll (one of the Northern Line Islands (southeast of Kingman Reef and north of Kiribati Line Islands), located almost due south of the Hawaiian Islands, roughly one-third of the way between Hawaii and American Samoa). A crew loaded it in secret onto the ship Esperanza in Callao harbor, Peru , and embarked into the Pacific Ocean on January 1, 1816 bound for the Spanish West Indies .
According to a survivor, seaman James Hines, the Esperanza was caught in a storm which dismasted and damaged the ship. Thus crippled, it was attacked and boarded by pirates, who loaded the treasure and surviving crew onto their own ship. The Esperanza sank, and they sailed west across the Pacific bound for Macao.
After 43 days, the pirates' ship met a storm, lost course, and struck hard the coral reef surrounding Palmyra Island, breaking the mast. The ninety men aboard were able to pull the ship in closer to land but it was not serviceable. They offloaded the treasure to the island, distributed some, and buried the rest. They repaired part of their boat and most of the crew shipped away. They were not heard from again. The remaining ten men spent most of a year on Palmyra living off of dwindling stores and local food. They spent three months building a small escape boat, and six men left Palmyra on the boat. Of these, four were washed overboard in a storm and the other two were rescued by an American whaler bound for San Francisco. One died en route, and the survivor, James Hines, was put in a hospital; 30 days later he died.
Before he died, he wrote letters describing the affair and the location of the treasure, which originally included 1.5 million Spanish pesos of gold and an equal value in silver (possibly consisting of precolumbian artworks).
In around 1903, over 95 years later, the letters were allegedly deposited for safekeeping with Capt. William R. Foster, the