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In October this city in the United Kingdom will host auction for the remainder of a cigar once smoked Winston Churchill. Experts predict that the final price of the lot will be very high – over ten million pounds sterling.
Famous British politician and statesman Churchill smoked this tobacco product in 1962. Then eighty-seven former prime minister several weeks lay in midsex hospital, breaking his hip during an unsuccessful falling out of bed. There were no anti-tobacco laws in those days, even project, so Churchill could enjoy his beloved harmful a habit without any restrictions right in the hospital room.
A nurse whose younger brother was a big fan politics, with the permission of Churchill, kept for a relative one of patient stubs. Now the descendants of this very fan who the relic was inherited, they decided to sell it at auction.
The appearance of this lot is dedicated to the fiftieth anniversary of death. Great British politician. Cigars are known to have been an integral attribute of the life of Winston Churchill – he acquired this habit in Cuba, where he served in his youth as a military man correspondent.
This, by the way, is not the first Churchill cigar stub exhibited at auction. In 2010, a similar lot, managed to change fifteen owners, was sold in America for seven million dollars. The buyer who paid such a large sum for a carbonized parcel tobacco leaves, I decided not to preserve rarity, but to finish it.
