As reported in the media this week, a dramatic ram raid took place at the Museum of Miniature Found Objects. At 3.28pm on Tuesday a Volvo estate car smashed through the entrance doors of the museum. Four masked men, brandishing machine guns and machetes, then entered the exhibition hall. They snatched a number of items on display and fled the building on foot.
The ticket office in the entrance foyer suffered severe damage in the attack, though no staff or members of the public were harmed. The men are currently being sought by the Metropolitan Police and Interpol.
The thieves' haul included the famous Byzantine earring know as 'The Empress's Tears'. One of a pair, the earrings were a gift to the Empress Theodora of Arabissus in 1355 from Tsar Ivan Alexander. After the fall of Constantinople in 1453 the earrings' whereabouts were unknown until recently, when one of the pair was found on the south-west corner of the junction between Downs Park Road and Pembury Road, in east London. The earring had been generously donated to the museum. A spokeswoman for the museum described staff as 'distraught' at the loss.
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Found object:
= earring: 10.02pm, Monday 23 July 2012, junction of Downs Park Road and Pembury Road, east London.
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