Lock of napoleon's hair auction

Lock of napoleon's hair auction

Lock of napoleon's hair auction. Lock of Napoleon's hair sells at auction.
A lock of hair cut from the head of former French emperor Napoleon Bonaparte shortly after his death sold for just over $15,350 in an auction in New Zealand.

The lock was bought by an unnamed collector in London, according to Hamish Coney, managing director of auctioneers Art+Object.

The hair, in a tightly-bound circle, was cut the morning after Napoleon's death on the Atlantic island of St Helena in 1821.