ATTRIBUTED TO NAPOLEON BONAPARTE: An early 19th Century blac...

Hammer

£5,600

ATTRIBUTED TO NAPOLEON BONAPARTE: An early 19th Century black lacquered snuff box, the lid with chequerboard style line detail with gold coloured central cartouche, opening to reveal a silver plaque to the inner lid “THIS BOX BELONGED TO NAPOLEON AND WAS GIVEN BY MADAME BERTRAND TO LIEUT. HAYNE R.A. AT ST HELENA 18TH MAY 1821”, measures 5.5cm x 3cm x 2cm. Provenance: Lieut. Haynes is recorded to have been on Madame Bertrand’s Visiting List (Lowe Papers 20,128, p.517 / St. Helena Who’s Who). Madame Bertrand was Napoleon's attendant on St. Helena and died April 20th 1822.

The vendor’s great, great, great uncle was named Philip Ditmas and was stationed on St. Helena to guard Napoleon.

Literature;

Gloucester Journal, Sat 1st June 1929
"Veteran Officer- Death of F.F. Ditmas"

"Lieutenant Philip Ditmas 66th Regiment, was stationed at St Helena to guard the Emperor Napoleon."

Dundee Evening Telegraph, Wed 30th March 1898

"Sale of Napoleon Relics"

"The property of a daughter of R.Hayne (who was in close personal attendance on Napoleon at St Helena until his death)"