Posted on 06/03/2010 7:47:23 AM PDT by PilotDave
Would anyone be expected to pay $3,111 for a Havana cigar in a box simply labeled "Hotel de Paris"? Well, someone did just that today, because it wasn't just any old cigar -- it was one that belonged to Winston Churchill that he never got around to smoking.
Initial estimates for the Cuban cigar by Camacho ranged from $1,500 to $2,200, according to the Christie's London auction company.
(Excerpt) Read more at aolnews.com ...
"Perhaps the most moving highlight of today's auction was two letters, one to Churchill and the other one his reply, which commanded $51,264, way above the initial estimates of $1,500 to $1,750.
The letter to Churchill from his former assistant private secretary, Eliot Crawshay-Williams, pleaded with the prime minister to come to terms with Adolf Hitler. It was written in 1940, before the U.S. had joined the war.
"I'm all for winning this war if it can be done," the letter said, adding that "an informed view of the situation shows that we've really not got a practical chance of actual ultimate victory" and that "no questions of prestige should stand in the way of our using our nuisance value while we have one to get the best peace terms possible."
Churchill's reply was bitingly brief and to the point.
"I am ashamed of you for writing such a letter. I return it to you -- to burn and forget.""
Well, that fetched a helluva lot more than one of Obama’s cigarettes would...hell, you could bum one of those.
Churchill was a giant. Reagan is tops in my book for the US, but Churchill was the greatest leader of the 20th century.
Someone has probably snagged it as a late wedding gift for Rush Limbaugh. lol.
I regard Sir Winston’s bust, returned to Britain, with far more respect, than the living bust who returned it.
Rush! Don’t smoke it man!
I have a complete man crush on Churchill.
Churchill’s mum was American.
That’s right.
Like the Mustang fighter with the Griffin engine, Churchill was a superbly successful hybrid.
or even Bill Clinton’s....
“Like the Mustang fighter with the Griffin engine, Churchill was a superbly successful hybrid.”
You are a silver tongued devil...
Actually, it was a Rolls Royce Merlin manufactured primarily by Packard Motor Company
I think they were a steal at $51,264.
This is way more expensive than the ones we were looking at the other night.
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