Friday, November 04, 2005

Boney's Tooth

Does anyone else remember Uncle Howard's Napoleon obsession? I saw this article about one of Napoleon's teeth being up for auction:
A tooth believed to belong to Napoleon Bonaparte is expected to fetch up to £8,000 at a Wiltshire auction.

The tooth is thought to have been pulled in 1817 when he suffered from a mouth inflammation diagnosed as scurvy.
What I remembered was seeing a magnifier of some kind at Mary&Howard's house inside of which was reputed to be one of Napoleon's hairs. Weird.

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