Saw this superb item online, a true piece of antique militaria. 
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(My Gladiator Eagle)
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(below) As cited item info...
NAPOLEON REGIMENT EAGLE FLAG TOP, MODEL 1815 FIRST EMPIRE.
After the first abdication of Napoleon I, 4 April 1814, almost all of the Eagles
had been melted by order of the royal government of Louis XVIII. The return
of the Emperor to Paris, March 20, 1815, new Eagles, a substantially different
than the 1804 model looks were ordered forward to Thomire - Duterne and Co..
The Eagles made 292 were solemnly handed over to the Champ de Mai, 1st
June 1815, and the Tuileries, June 4, 1815. The distribution of 1 June concerned
the Army: 8 Eagles for the Imperial Guard, 132 troops on foot and 66 troops on
horseback. On 4 June 1815, 87 eagles were handed over to the National Guard.
€ 100,000.00
Height: 20.8 cm.
Back Height: 21.9 cm.
Width: 22.5 cm.
Total weight: 1451 g.
PROVENANCE:
Eagle from the old collection SAINT-AUBIN, February 4, 1936 sold to Pierre BENOIT,
where she remained until collection in 2012.
RARITY:
Based on the work of Pierre Charrié "Flags and Standards and Practices of the
Revolution and the Empire," ...here is an inventory of 76 M-1815 eagles
known :
45th Infantry of Edimburg Museum.
52nd Infantry view in 1823 by a French officer, lost since.
86th Infantry (box again under the Second Empire) at the Museum of Geneva.
105th Infantry at the National Army Museum.
6th cavalry in a private collection.
2nd Hussars at the Army Museum in Paris.
2nd Grenadier of the Imperial Guard gave the Marshal Oudinot, Duke of Reggio,
by King Louis XVIII in 1815.
National Guard, 67 eagles and 68 flags were donated by King Louis XVIII to Paris
to Wellington after the Battle of Waterloo, they are currently still held in London
in Aspley Hiouse (home of the Duke of Wellington became a museum).
Eagle without box, found in the Seine in a private collection.
OLDFLAGSWANTED
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...(My Gladiator Eagle)
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(below) As cited item info...
NAPOLEON REGIMENT EAGLE FLAG TOP, MODEL 1815 FIRST EMPIRE.
After the first abdication of Napoleon I, 4 April 1814, almost all of the Eagles
had been melted by order of the royal government of Louis XVIII. The return
of the Emperor to Paris, March 20, 1815, new Eagles, a substantially different
than the 1804 model looks were ordered forward to Thomire - Duterne and Co..
The Eagles made 292 were solemnly handed over to the Champ de Mai, 1st
June 1815, and the Tuileries, June 4, 1815. The distribution of 1 June concerned
the Army: 8 Eagles for the Imperial Guard, 132 troops on foot and 66 troops on
horseback. On 4 June 1815, 87 eagles were handed over to the National Guard.
€ 100,000.00
Height: 20.8 cm.
Back Height: 21.9 cm.
Width: 22.5 cm.
Total weight: 1451 g.
PROVENANCE:
Eagle from the old collection SAINT-AUBIN, February 4, 1936 sold to Pierre BENOIT,
where she remained until collection in 2012.
RARITY:
Based on the work of Pierre Charrié "Flags and Standards and Practices of the
Revolution and the Empire," ...here is an inventory of 76 M-1815 eagles
known :
45th Infantry of Edimburg Museum.
52nd Infantry view in 1823 by a French officer, lost since.
86th Infantry (box again under the Second Empire) at the Museum of Geneva.
105th Infantry at the National Army Museum.
6th cavalry in a private collection.
2nd Hussars at the Army Museum in Paris.
2nd Grenadier of the Imperial Guard gave the Marshal Oudinot, Duke of Reggio,
by King Louis XVIII in 1815.
National Guard, 67 eagles and 68 flags were donated by King Louis XVIII to Paris
to Wellington after the Battle of Waterloo, they are currently still held in London
in Aspley Hiouse (home of the Duke of Wellington became a museum).
Eagle without box, found in the Seine in a private collection.
Now thats gotta be worth 150,000. Euros...belonging to napoleons ship...
( you never know)
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