<P> As a security measure, The Football Association secretly manufactured a replica of the trophy for use in exhibitions rather than the original . This replica was used on subsequent occasions up until 1970 when the original trophy had to be handed back to FIFA for the next competition . Since FIFA had explicitly denied the FA permission to create a replica, the replica also had to disappear from public view and was for many years kept under its creator's bed . This replica was eventually sold at an auction in 1997 for £ 254,500, when it was purchased by FIFA . The high auction price, ten times the reserve price of £ 20,000--£ 30,000, was led by speculation that the auctioned trophy was not the replica trophy but the original itself . Subsequent testing by FIFA, however, confirmed the auctioned trophy was indeed a replica and FIFA soon afterwards arranged for the replica to be lent for display at the English National Football Museum, which was then based in Preston but is now in Manchester . </P> <P> The Brazilian team won the tournament for the third time in 1970, allowing them to keep the real trophy in perpetuity, as had been stipulated by Jules Rimet in 1930 . It was put on display at the Brazilian Football Confederation headquarters in Rio de Janeiro in a cabinet with a front of bullet - proof glass . </P> <P> On 19 December 1983, the wooden rear of the cabinet was opened by force with a crowbar and the cup was stolen again . Four men were tried and convicted in absentia for the crime . The trophy has never been recovered, and it is widely believed to have been melted down and sold . Only one piece of the Jules Rimet Trophy has been found, the original base which FIFA had kept in a basement of the federation's Zürich headquarters prior to 2015 . </P> <P> The Confederation commissioned a replica of their own, made by Eastman Kodak, using 1.8 kilograms (4.0 lb) of gold . This replica was presented to Brazilian military president João Figueiredo in 1984 . The trophy was the subject of a 2014 documentary "Mysteries of the Rimet Trophy" shown as part of ESPN's 30 for 30: Soccer Stories films series during the 2014 World Cup . </P>

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