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ACADEMIC BICORNE BY HENRI DUPUY DE LOME (1816–1885).
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312
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ACADEMIC BICORNE BY HENRI DUPUY DE LOME (1816–1885).
See original version (French)
Estimate €400 - €500
Voluntary lot
Description
ACADEMIC BICORNE BY HENRI DUPUY DE LOME (1816–1885).
Made of taupe-coloured felt, trimmed with black feathers. Black velvet trim and button embroidered with olive leaves in green and light green thread.
Embroidered tricolour cockade.
Inner lining marked in gold with ‘A.BOUCICAUT’.
In its original carrying box.
A.B.E. Second Empire period.
Internal dimensions: 14.5 x 20 cm
Provenance | Henri Dupuy de Lôme, then by descent
Biography |
Stanislas Henri Laurent Dupuy de Lôme
French naval engineer (Ploemeur 1816–Paris 1885).
He built the first steamship, the Napoléon (1850), and the first armoured frigate, the Gloire (1858), which served as a model for the Second Empire navy. Member of the Council of State and Member of Parliament for Morbihan. In 1870, he succeeded in getting sixty airships out of besieged Paris. He had been a member of the Academy of Sciences since 1866.
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