Mũ của Napoleon được bán đấu giá ở Pháp với giá 2,1 triệu USD

“There is something a bit mystical (huyền bí) about it,” said Raphaël Pitchal of the French auction house Osenat. “It has a powerful image.” Two bidders were at the auction in person, and one called in over the phone, he said. The winner, a French collector, asked to remain anonymous (giấu tên).

The sale comes just before the new Ridley Scott film “Napoleon,” starring Joaquin Phoenix and Vanessa Kirby, hits theaters on Wednesday.

The hat, which auctioneers had expected would sell for between €600,000 and €800,000, is one of some 20 hats said to still exist of Napoleon’s 120 two-cornered military dress hats that he wore as part of his everyday uniform. Just four or five of those are in private collections (sưu tập tư nhân) and the rest are displayed in museums (trưng bày trong các viện bảo tàng) or held by the French government, Mr. Pitchal said.

The one that sold on Sunday had been part of a collection of Napoleon items belonging to a French businessman, Jean Louis Noisiez, who died last year.

In 2018, a faded (phai màu) and torn (rách) black hat attributed (được cho là) to Napoleon and said to have been dropped on the battlefield (đánh rơi trên chiến trường) at Waterloo sold for more than $400,000. In 2014, one of Napoleon’s hats sold for more than $2 million, the previous record, to Kim Hong-Kuk, the South Korean founder and chairman of the Harim food conglomerate; it went for about five times the asking price. That hat came from a collection belonging to Monaco’s royal family.

... An engagement ring (nhẫn đính hôn) belonging to Napoleon’s wife, Josephine, went for $1.2 million in 2013.

source: nytimes,