Grisly souvenir made from the vertebra of Captain George Holmes, who was fatally shot in the spine at the Battle of Waterloo (1815 CE). His widow had his body boiled, & the damaged vertebra removed, varnished & set with silver. She also kept the bullet that killed him [1541×2048]
by Soft_Colors
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Wife was metal af
Was any record made of her motivation for doing these things? Was having a corpse boiled a common or accepted practice at the time?
Damn she had it in for him. Thats what happens when she finds out about your side bitch
True love is…weird.
When bones are white, I think they are called “bleached” I don’t know what chemicals are used in the bleaching.
These bones didn’t appear to have been bleached. Is this the natural color of bones or are we seeing a brown residue of soft tissue?
Was Waterloo different or did people always do insane things with war dead? I learned about Waterloo teeth and few years ago but it seems like people were being salvaged like a junkyard.