Abstract
the next 30 years, the whereabouts of the Wittelsbach Blue were kept secret from the public. In 1951, the WAF secretly sold the Wittelsbach Blue, which was then “rediscovered” in 1961 by Antwerp diamond dealer Jozef Komkommer. In 1964, it was purchased by a private German collector whose identity was not revealed until recently. During the authors’ investigations in the Bavarian State Archive in Munich, in the Austrian State Archives in Vienna, and in three Spanish historical archives in Madrid, Simancas, and Valladolid, it became evident that many of the accepted “facts” about the Wittelsbach Blue and its history that were published by Antwerp diamond specialist K. de Smet in his book, The Great Blue Diamond, The Wittelsbacher, Crown Witness to Three Centuries of European History (1963), and cited afterwards by many others, had no archival basis. Based on our comprehensive review of the available documents, we can now correct the historical record and report on the true, exciting history of the Wittelsbach Blue as it moved through Europe. THE WITTELSBACH BLUE
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