Excellent Napoleonics Source

[Colin_Fraser]

I have a pile of old Osenat de Fontainebleau auction catalogues. They do a Napoleonic sale about twice a year and publish a full colour several hundred page glossy catalogue that would put many publishers to shame - letters, weapons, furniture, medals, decor, paintings, uniforms etc. A couple of of years ago they sold Napoleon's sword worn at Marengo with a reserve of half a million Euro as I recall. This has the top class stuff that multi-millionaires bid on (needless to say I have never bought anything). My friend at work calls their catalogue "antiques porn." Anyway they are great reference tools.​

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You can download pdfs of their past catalogues for the last few years here. http://www.osenat.fr/html/calendrier.jsp?t=p Not everyone is Napoleonic though. I just realised these pdfs were there. Superb resource!​

Here are direct links to a couple to get you started:​

http://www.osenat.fr/flash/index.jsp?id=15475&idCp=67&lng=fr​

http://www.osenat.fr/flash/index.jsp?id=13788&idCp=67&lng=fr​

http://www.osenat.fr/flash/index.jsp?id=12010&idCp=67&lng=fr​

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Colin​

 

[DEL]

Cheers Colin.....that's sorted out the Cristmas presents for this year
Lots of wonderful stuff.
Derek

 

[ChaosCossack]

Very cool... Beautiful stuff!
Thanx

 

[RFL]

Great stuff there, thanks !!

 

[Mat Lambert]

Great stuff
Mat

 

[Colin_Fraser]

I see I made a double post (d'oh) so if one of the mods wants to zap the other one I will look less the dolt. These catalogues usually have a lot of autographs, tehn books and after that one gets to the pictures, furnishings, medals and clothing. Its easier to get through the catalogue if you download the pdf rather than flip though page by page. I see they do an eboook format too. Very advanced compared to other auction houses.

Colin