Winston Churchill - half-smoked cigar for auction
Published March 23rd, 2006
UK Auction News
A half-smoked cigar discarded by war-time British prime minister Sir Winston Churchill is to be auctioned.
The burnt remains are expected to attract huge interest when they go under the hammer in Liverpool next month.
According to the auctioneers, Churchill was smoking the cigar as he arrived to address a meeting at Blackpool`s Winter Gardens on October 14, 1950.
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