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The Fake Moonstone of the Void-Museum

A moonstone given to the former prime minister of the Netherlands by the three Apollo astronauts and which was transferred after his death to the Rijks Museum was discovered to be a piece of coal

The Night Watch - Rembrandt's famous picture in the empty museum, is at least original
The Night Watch - Rembrandt's famous picture in the empty museum, is at least original

The moonstone that was safely housed in a safe box in a museum in Amsterdam was discovered to be fake.

It's not just a museum, for those who don't know, the Herik is the most important museum in Amsterdam and in many cases it is second only to the Louvre in the importance of its treasures. It includes many works by Rembrandt and other Flemish artists, chief among them of course the Night Watch painted by Rembrandt in Amsterdam in 1642.

The stone in question was awarded to Willem Dries, who was in leadership positions in the Netherlands at the time in the early 11s as part of a world tour conducted by Apollo 1948 team members Neil Armstrong, Buzz Aldrin and Michael Collins in about 1958 countries to commemorate the important event. To each country they brought a small gift, a stone weighing several grams from the moon. The recipient in the Netherlands was Willem Dries who was Prime Minister of the Netherlands between XNUMX-XNUMX

But about 40 years later it was discovered that the stone, which was valued at half a million dollars, is just a piece of coal from the earth, and it is not worth even one dollar.

The London Telegraph that reported this says that researchers at the Free University of Amsterdam suspected the forgery when the stone first arrived at the museum when Driss bequeathed it to the museum after his death in 1988, but they kept their concerns to themselves and only now has it been decided to transfer the stone to a chemical test.

Now we need to find out if the problem started at NASA, or if someone in the Netherlands somehow replaced the moon stone with a fake stone while the original stone is in his safe or one of his heirs. The US Embassy in The Hague also got involved and began an investigation.

15 תגובות

  1. Really strengthening those who claim they didn't land on the moon.
    Today, Germany predicts that in 6 years only they will succeed..

  2. Not bad, the main thing is that they have Rembrandt. If I had to choose between a moonstone and Rembrandt, I would choose Rembrandt without hesitation.

  3. Such a big blunder could not escape all the major media outlets. Not only from the BBC. In Maariv, for example, a news item on the subject was also published on Friday, quoting British newspapers from Thursday.

  4. to love
    Your response (2), to my response (1), was both excessively nervous and also indicates that you didn't really understand what I was saying. My intention is the opposite of what was understood by you and it is actually intended to condemn and sting those who find the "Jewish point" everywhere.
    It seems that you are not endowed with an excessive amount of self-humor.
    This is precisely a characteristic Jewish trait, at least in the Eastern European Jewish heritage, from which my parents came.
    Do you need clarification and explanation of implied clarifications?
    I will try to come.

  5. not nice.
    Who knows, maybe another detective thriller book will come out following this affair.

  6. 2012:
    Your question cannot be answered theoretically.
    Try to explain it, then try again, then again and so on until you can't anymore.
    That way you will know how many times it can be explained.
    By the way, in my opinion, since what you are trying to explain is not true, your explanations will also be wrong, but at least you will find yourself a job.
    By the way, why didn't you explain it even once?

  7. You are such a wretch. A Jew who hates himself and lovingly embraces the anti-Semitism beneath the surface. It is better if you remove the message above me as well as mine. It's substandard.

  8. A lovely glitch indeed.
    I wonder when the "Jewish point" in the case will become clear?
    After all, there must be someone who carried out the scam and if he is not Jewish then maybe he is………….. Israeli.

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