Record auction for a Napoleon hat: sold for almost 2 million euros
This is the famous black bicorn with its blue, white and red rosette
Napoleon Bonaparte's famous black bicorno with the blue, white and red cockade, dating back to 1810, was sold at auction for 1.932 million euros.
A figure that far exceeds the estimates of the Osénat auction house. The legendary headdress attracted "collectors from all over the world" and generated great enthusiasm, the auction house said, breaking its own record.
Made by Pierre-Quentin-Joseph Baillon, furrier to the emperor since 1806, it was sold by his nephew to the Dijon antique dealer Charles Meyer and ended up in the Paul Senes collection. Purchased by Jean Brunon in 1928, it first went to his son Raoul, then to the other Jean. Then the auction from the collection of Jean-Louis Noisez, a French industrialist who was a great enthusiast of Bonaparte, who died in 2022.
Another Napoleon hat was sold in 2014 for 1.884 million euros.
(Unioneonline/D)
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