MEMORIES OF THE JOSEPH NAPOLEON REGIMENT Empire period silver tumbler and cutlery Presented to Lieutenant Emmanuel Lopez of the Joseph Napoleon Regiment by his comrades on the occasion of his being awarded the Légion d'Honneur. Comprising : - Timbale engraved on the front with a Legion of Honour of the 3rd type with arched inscription "Emmanuel LOPEZ Teniente al Regimiento Espanol. José NAPOLEON. 29 Junio 1813". Weight : 116 g Hallmark: cock 1 950 Paris. 1798-1809 Middle guarantee hallmark: Paris Goldsmiths' association hallmark Goldsmith's hallmark : Louis Jacques BERGER - Fork with fillet, engraved with a Legion of Honour, dated "12 June 1813". Handle engraved in French "To Lieutenant Emanuel LOPEZ his comrades of the Spanish Regiment. Joseph NAPOLEON". Weight : 75 g Hallmarks: cock 1 and guarantee 1809-1819 Goldsmith's hallmark: Pierre Benoit LORILLON - Fillet spoon also engraved with a Legion of Honour, dated 29 June 1813. Inscribed in Spanish: "Al Teniente Emmanuel LOPEZ sus companeros de regimiento espanol. Jose NAPOLEON". Weight : 75 g Hallmarks: cock 1 and guarantee 1809-1819 Goldsmith's hallmark: Pierre Benoit LORILLON B.E. Origin : Former Napoleonic collection of the Prince's Palace of Monaco (1st sale, lot 175). A Joseph Napoleon Regiment's memorabilia A set of silver cutlery and kettledrum, from the First Empire period Commentary: Commandant Emmanuel-Antoine Lopez was born on 8 May 1787 in Mellid, province of Galicia (Spain). He entered the service as a volunteer in the Asturias regiment on 19 June 1802, was appointed sergeant on 27 February 1804, came to France in May 1807 with the Spanish troops of the Marquis of La Romana and fought with this corps in the campaigns of 1807 and 1808 in Germany and Denmark. Returning to France after his regiment was disbanded at the end of 1808, he was admitted as sergeant-major to the Spanish Joseph-Napoléon regiment in the service of France on 12 June 1809. He became second lieutenant on 13 October 1812, lieutenant on 23 April 1813 and captain on 8 July of the same year. He saved the flag of his regiment, which had been decimated in Russia at Wilna in 1812. Discharged with all foreign troops on 17 April 1814 and placed on non-active status. Captain in the 6th foreign regiment on 25 June 1815, resigned on 21 August, naturalised French by order of 10 April 1818, he was appointed captain in the royal staff corps on 12 December 1818. Successively aide-de-camp to Generals Ordonneau, d'Hénin, Bigarré and Colbert, he was appointed chef d'escadron on 31 December 1831; retired on 18 July 1845, he was appointed commissaire du Gouvernement to the 1st council of war of the 13th military division on 24 January 1849, he ceased these functions on 20 November 1855, and died in Guingamp (Côtes-du-Nord) on 14 March 1862. Campaigns: 1805 and 1806, in Spain, against the English; 1807 and 1808, in Germany, in Denmark; 1810 and 1811, Elbe observation corps; 1812, in Russia; 1813, in Saxony; 1815, Loire army. Wounds: Bayonet wound on 12 May 1813, at the battle of Lutzen; shot in the right foot on 16 October 1813, at the battle of Leipzig; sabre wound to the head on 31 October 1813, at the battle of Hanau. Decorations: Member of the Legion of Honour, 23 June 1813; Officer, 5 January 1854. Note : Les Carnets de la Sabretache published in 1898 (Volume 6) an account by Commandant Lopez of his campaigns in Denmark.