• breadsmasher@lemmy.world
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    10 months ago

    In his lifetime Napoleon wore over a hundred of the uniquely shaped bicorne hats. A French industrialist spent more than fifty years assembling the collection before he died last year

    So some dude spends half a century creating a collection, and as soon as he dies, it immediately gets parted out and sold individually?

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      Someone didn’t bequeath it to a museum? Kinda crazy