Half-smoked cigar dropped by Winston Churchill fetches £4,800

(Daily Mail) A part-smoked cigar dropped on the floor by Winston Churchill has fetched £4,800 at auction.

The cigar was discarded by the then Prime Minister while he and his wife were attending the film premiere of American musical Call Me Madam at the London Coliseum in Westminster in 1953.

It was picked up from the floor by cinema usherette Violet King who was so excited by her political keepsake that she wrote to 10 Downing Street to ask Churchill's permission to tell her friends about it - to which he agreed. Continued