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Lock of Napoleon’s hair sells for US$13,000
30.06.2010
A lock of Napoleon Bonaparte’s hair has sold at an auction in New Zealand for US$13,000.
The lock was contained in a case and accompanied by a handwritten note which reads: “Hair of Napoleon the 1st cut off the morning after his death May 1821”.
The lock of hair was valued at between US$12 000 - US$15 000 by the New Zealand auction house offering it for sale.
It formed part of an archive collection consisting of approximately 40 items documenting Napoleon’s final years spent on the island of St Helena from 1815 - 1821. The collection was held by the New Zealand-based descendents of Denzil Ibbetson, who was a Commissary Officer and artist on St Helena during Napolean's period of exile.
According to the Art+Object auction house, the Ibbetson collection was in effect an artistic and documentary record of Napoleon's final days and constitutes “one of the most important collections of artwork and objects associated with a major historic figure ever to be found in Australasia”.
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