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Video shows half-smoked cigar by Churchill that's up for auction
short by Swati Dubey / on Wednesday, 31 May, 2023
Sir Winston Churchill's cigar, which will be auctioned in June, is estimated to fetch around £600 to £900. Churchill had given a half-smoked cigar to Hugh Stonehewer-Bird, the consul general in Morocco, after a dinner party in 1944. He kept the cigar in a glass jar until his death in 1973. It was looked after by Hugh's family later.
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