I am saddened to hear of a major theft from the The Briars Homestead at Mount Martha, Victoria, Australia. originally the home of William Balcombe, father of Betsy, and the owner of the Briars on St Helena when Napoleon stayed there in 1815.
Below I have posted images of the valuable objects stolen.
It is important that information about this theft is circulated as widely as possible to aid the efforts to recover them, so I would encourage anyone who has a web page to publish these images.
3 comments:
I hope the thieves fall under a Melbourne tram and get chopped into tiny little pieces :(
Of the 10 Napoleonic objects stolen, I particularly like the two portrait miniatures.
Thanks for the (sad) link,
Hels
http://melbourneblogger.blogspot.com.au/2011/12/napoleon-briars-and-melbourne.html
Hi Hels,
That sounds like a nasty end! I shall have to revise my image of you!
John
Trams are Melbourne's main city symbol. You could land on earth blindfolded and not know where you were, until you saw our trams :)
A fit punishment for a Melbourne thief.
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