Napoleon's briefcase

 

As a recent fan of simple work briefcases, I was thrilled to learn that Napoleon also used a briefcase, as displayed at the armory museum at the Imperial Palace in Stockholm. The exhibit had so many fascinating items (such as the horse that Gustav II rode and was killed on -- the real horse mummified and standing upright). Some were politically important monuments for Sweden that were made publicly visible to the people for long, some stolen from other countries as the good old war practice went in the past, and other items were purchased.

 

This website shows a similar briefcase of Napoleon's that was handed down through generations in Germany now as a collector's item. The armory museum said the briefcase contained Napoleon's diplomatic dialogue/documentations.

The Royal Armory
Slottsbacken 3, 111 30 Stockholm, Sweden
+46 8402 3030