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Key to Napoleon s prison bedroom found in a trunk in Scotland sells at auction for £81,900
The historic item fetched more than 16 times its pre-sale estimate after it was found in a trunk in a stately home just outside of Edinburgh.
The key, along with the envelope and notes it was found with. (Image: Sotheby s)
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The key to Napoleon’s prison bedroom has been sold at auction for £81,900.
The artefact fetched more than 16 times its pre-sale estimate when it went under the hammer, according to the auction house Sotheby’s.
The key, which was discovered by Charles Richard Fox, was sold alongside a note reading: “Key of the room at St Helena, in which Napoleon died & which I got there out of the door in 1822.”
Eleven bidders tried to buy the key (Sotheby’s/PA)
Another item is inscribed: “Bit of the paper, close to the spot where Napoleon’s bed, in which he died, stood.”
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