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A
Napoleonic wine bottle.
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A Napoleonic
Wine Bottle
This wine bottle
bears the mark of Napoleon, but unfortunately, its contents have
long since been consumed.
John Chalmers Da Costa, an 1885 graduate of Jefferson Medical College and Samuel
D. Gross Professor of Surgery at Jefferson, received the bottle
as a gift when he was attending President Woodrow Wilson in France
after World War I.
Da Costa intended
to give the wine to Mrs. Da Costa, but the story goes that after
much coaxing from friends during his return voyage to American,
he was persuaded to open the bottle and consume the contents. The
empty bottle, therefore, is all that Mrs. Da Costa received.
This bottle is an
example of the objects preserved in the Memorabilia Collection of
the University Archives and Special Collections.
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