[post_page_title]The Cellini Salt Cellar robbery – $68 million[/post_page_title]
The Cellini Salt Cellar is a sculpture made of gold and ivory and covered in enamel. A salt cellar, if you were wondering, is a tableware item for holding salt.
This particular one was made by Italian master Benvenuto Cellini in 1543. It was insured for around $68 million and protected by numerous security measures in Vienna’s Kunsthistorisches Museum. None of them helped, and it was stolen in May, 2003. The cellar was recovered not three years later, buried in an Austrian forest. The thief turned himself in shortly thereafter.
