Buy Napoleon's tooth for 8000 pounds

Hindustan Times ^ | November 3, 2005

[nickcarraway]

Napoleon Bonaparte's tooth, which was troublesome and pulled out in 1817, is up for auction, and it is probably set to fetch much more than what a tusk goes for.

According to the Sun, Napoleon's 'boney part' could fetch a price as high as 8000 pounds.

The tooth, extracted during his exile after defeat at Waterloo, is being sold at Swindon, Wilts, next week, said the paper.

Napoleon was held on St Helena, in the South Atlantic, after Waterloo.

[Squantos]

St Helena..(now ascension island) ..a great place for Napoleon to spend his later years ....:o)

[CardCarryingMember.VastRightWC]

a great place for Napoleon to spend his later year

Many years ago I read of how some modern medical researchers got ahold of a lock of his hair that had been snipped off when he died. They found very high levels of arsenic and theorized that someone among his British captors had slowly poisoned him to death.

[beyond the sea]

Napoleon Bonaparte's tooth, which was troublesome and pulled out in 1817, is up for auction, and it is probably set to fetch much more than what a tusk goes for.

My, my ...... how much does a Napolean tusk fetch?

[Squantos]

I believe there were a lot of medicinal and cosmetic sources of that also, he may have cured his vanity alone too....

[MPJackal]

8000 pound tooth? That is one big tooth.

[beyond the sea]

Yeh, pretty big for such a little guy.

[wickedpinto]

really!!!

Who weighs that much?

[Caipirabob]

Many years ago I read of how some modern medical researchers got ahold of a lock of his hair that had been snipped off when he died. They found very high levels of arsenic and theorized that someone among his British captors had slowly poisoned him to death.

In truth, from what I've learned, the slow poisoning may account for his change in demeanor upon return from his first exile. That the British would have continued the process following his latter defeat wouldn't surprise me.

Although I think some cheap lead and gunpowder following the first incarceration would have sufficed. It'd work for Saddam, too.

[agere_contra]

They're pretty sure that Napoleon was poisoned by a FRENCHMAN in his entourage, acting as an agent for the Bourbons.

[Charles Henrickson]

I want to buy his elba.

[Colorado Doug]

I want to buy his elba.

I will sell it to you cheap.

[CardCarryingMember.VastRightWC]

They're pretty sure that Napoleon was poisoned by a FRENCHMAN in his entourage, acting as an agent for the Bourbons

You say he was poisoned with Bourbon? How sad. That has happened to many a good man.

[aculeus]

It fetched 11K sterling.



http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/england/wiltshire/4425966.stm

[wallcrawlr]

where is he buried...shouldnt it be with him