Napoleon’s Dental Kit Nets $93,570 at Auction
Reuters
LONDON —
The dental instruments used to clean and pull Napoleon Bonaparte’s teeth were sold at a London auction Thursday for $93,570 to an anonymous telephone bidder.
The set--scrapers, tweezers and gold scalpels--was taken by a soldier from the French emperor’s baggage train at the 1815 Battle of Waterloo when he was defeated by Britain’s Duke of Wellington.
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