The hat that would have belonged to Napoleon Bonaparte
Photo: Disclosure/Osenat
A bicorn hat, which is believed to have been part of it Napoleon Bonaparte was sold this Sunday 19th for a record price of 1.932 million euros more than R$ 10 million at the current price at the Drouot auction house in Paris.
The piece was originally estimated to be worth between 600,000 and 800,000 euros just over R$4 million. The value exceeds the 1.884 million euros paid for another Napoleon hat that Drouot sold in 2014, a member of the house said.
Before the event, auctioneer JeanPierre Osenat told Portal that the black felt hat in the traditional bicorne shape was a trademark of Napoleon, who owned about 120 products of this type during his life.
Photo: Disclosure/Osenat
“The hat was part of the image he was building because Napoleon was a communication man,” Osenat said.
Hats that would have belonged to Napoleon often show up at auctions. In October 2021, a recently discovered hat, whose DNA evidence proved it belonged to him, was auctioned by Bonhams in London.
*Reporting by Ardee Napolitano, Portal
Source: Redação Terra