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Sir Winston in 1947
Just read that a half smoked cigar left by Winston Churchill in a Paris airport in 1947 was sold at auction for $12,000 dollars. Bizarre.
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@buflosab @Londy3 What will be even more bizarre, is if the purchaser tries to smoke the nasty thing!...
Why would somebody in 1947, choose to pick a cigar out of an ash can and save it during that era? Churchill tended to chew on cigars, puffing the smoke out rather than inhaling, often discarding them half-smoked. They must have been nasty looking when he discarded them. (I had a neighbor, who has long passed now, who smoked and chewed on his cigars as well. He inhaled them, as opposed to blowing smoke out of them, and tended to smoke them down. What was tossed was the most nastiest thing I had ever saw at the time.)
In the war torn Paris of 1947, ebay did not exist nor did any similar websites so there were no markets for those types of souvenirs. Would be interested to see what a 70-y/o half smoked, chewed up cigar looks like after surviving for so long.
Seems suspicious to me. Just saying.