This lead is a bit on the breakable side...
Glassware...
But not just any glassware....
Champagne glasses belonging to Napoleon.
No nothing to do with Napoleon Dynamite....
These belonged to Napoleon Bonaparte.
These were last seen in the late 1920s in Winnipeg, Manitoba.
My trail on them has gone cold as of the 1970s, as the last living member of the family owning them passed away, leaving no known heirs.
Could them still be floating around Winnipeg? Given away? Or trashed when the estate was cleaned up?
The photo below is an actual image of the very pieces missing. There was a set of 10 of these, with the provenance being fairly strong. There is a possibility they were commemorative pieces of some sort, but the style matches that of the period exactly.
Imagine, Napoleonic relics in Winnipeg, Manitoba of all places!
But where could the be now?
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