According to the auction house that organized the auction, the double-horned hat of France’s first emperor, Napoleon Bonaparte I (1769-1821), was sold for approximately 2 million euros at the auction in Fontainebleau, France. Osenate .
Organizers said, “After much bidding, I found a buyer for Emperor Napoleon’s hat for 1,932,000 Euros.”
This is a black felt hat decorated with a tricolor cockade, dating from the 1810s. It is believed to be this double-horned hat that Napoleon wore on the ship Inconstant while escaping from exile on the island of Elba in 1815.
The auction house announced that this was a record amount from a collection associated with Napoleon Bonaparte. At the same time, the estimated value of the bicorn before the auction ranged from 600 to 800 thousand euros.
Before that, the most expensive item belonging to Napoleon was considered to be another hat, which was purchased for 1.8 million euros at an auction held at the same auction house in 2014.
Before that, the French Ministry of Finance put up for auction Smuggled goods detected by the country’s customs.
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