M0020024: Pair of gold-mounted flintlock pistols previously owned by Napoleon

Previous title, replaced July 2022: Napoleon's gold-mounted pistols.

Photograph of a pair of gold-mounted pistols said to have been taken from Napoleon's coach during the retreat from Moscow and later came into the possession of Sir James Wylie. They were presented to the Wellcome Historical Medical Museum in 1929 and accessioned in 1965 (accession number R12/1965)

March 1965

2 photographs sheet film negative; 10.2 x 12.7 cm photographic print; 9 x 12 cm

Wellcome Collection holds the accession register which provides an entry for the item: R12/1965

Copyright is held by Wellcome Collection

Catalogue data comes from a combination of entries in the original glass plate registers, metadata created when the glass plates were digitised in the early 2000s and enhancements made by the cataloguer in 2022.

This item is fragile. Email library@wellcomecollection.org to request access to the physical item.