Napoleon: "It is said that the diminutive conqueror's appendage was removed following his 1921 death and passed along with many other possessions to the home of a priest who attended the autopsy. Many years and sales later, the collection found its way into the hands of an American rare book collector, who put it on display at New York's Museum of French Art. A report at the time said the appendage resembled "a maltreated strip of buckskin shoelace or shriveled eel." Syracuse University urologist John K. Lattimer, a collector of the eccentric, purchased the item for $3,000 in the 1970s, the last known transaction involving the relic."

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