SOME HAT
NAPOLEON’S HEAL GEAR BRINGS £3OOO FIRST SOLD AS OLD CLOTHES PARIS, May 17. One of Napoleon's hats, a well known speoiman, has been sold at auction tor £3OOO. The hat will not leave France, since it was announced that the pur chaser was a French army officer. The hat, in the shape made famous by Napoleon, was accompanied by a certificate guaranteeing that it had been sold by bis valet in 1814 to an old clothes merchant.
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Waihi Daily Telegraph, Volume XXV, Issue 7722, 14 July 1928, Page 4
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79SOME HAT Waihi Daily Telegraph, Volume XXV, Issue 7722, 14 July 1928, Page 4
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