Napoleon lock of hair

Napoleon lock of hairA lock of approximately 20 strands of Napoleon's dark hair, with superb provenance. The strands are approx. 2 inches long and neatly tied together. They're presented in a wooden box with a glass panel in the lid (containing a further lock of dark braided hair origin unknown). The hair comes with the original wrapper in which the lock was preserved. Signed by an unidentified individual (P. Trin?) and annotated in their hand: Bonapartes hair given by

Made of hard polyfoam

showing three strikes of oval date stamps

Pele is believed to have worn it in a Brazil v Chile friendly on October 4

Florin George V 1932 Standard type Good Extremely Fine and graded 70 by London Coins Grading Service and in their holder ALERT ME WHEN ANOTHER IS AVAILABLE >

His translated report reads in full:

Provenance: Ex Keith Buckingham (Grosvenor 28/2/2006

Edition No

Great Britain 1864 6d Lilac Plate 4

Writer AA Milne based the characters (including Pooh's friends Eeyore and Piglet) on his son Christopher Robin’s own stuffed toys

hardly ever seen so fine

Scarce in this positional form

A fine mint block of twelve with large part original gum (lower block of 8 are unmounted mint)