At auction in France, a gold medallion with Napoleon’s hair Bonaparte will be sold, the start price of the lot is 1.5 thousand euros (more than 130 thousand rubles). The auction will be held on April 11, the Komsomolskaya Pravda reports.
The first owner of the medallion with the strand of hair invested in him was Count Emmanuel de Las Kases, accompanied by Napoleon in a link to the island of Saint Helena. After the death of the commander, the Count took out a medallion from the island, which invested the curl from the head of the deceased emperor.
Together with a medallion, the buyer will receive a letter of Cases of 1815, which says that Napoleon’s hair was exconed on board the Northumberland ship in 1815.
In 2019, at the auction in Paris, Bonaparte belonged to Napoleon Bonaparte boots. Black leather boots of the 40th size went with a hammer for 117.2 thousand euros. Initially, their cost was estimated at 50-80 thousand euros. These boots Napoleon wore a link on the island of Saint Helena, where he died in 1821.