SIR WINSTON CHURCHILL MEMORABILIA AUCTION MAY FETCH £1M

02.06.2010 [16:58]
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Baku, June 2 (AZERTAC). One of the largest collections of Sir Winston Churchill memorabilia, including an unsmoked cigar, is expected to fetch £1m at auction later. The items are being sold by US publishing magnate, Steve Forbes, who amassed them over three decades. The collection also features the wartime leader`s official engagements diary and candid letters to colleagues.

Auctioneer Christie`s says the items, being sold in three parts, provide an exceptional insight into the man.

The first sale, of about 150 lots, will be followed by a second in New York in December and a third in London next summer.

The former prime minister`s engagement diary on 30 cards, giving details of his daily activities from September 1939 to June 1945, is expected to fetch up to £120,000.

It was kept by his private secretaries and includes recorded summits with leaders Roosevelt and Stalin as well as leisure pursuits such as football matches and theatre trips.

Malcolm Forbes, who gathered the collection, is chief executive of Forbes Inc and the grandson of Forbes magazine founder BC Forbes.

SIR WINSTON CHURCHILL MEMORABILIA AUCTION MAY FETCH £1M

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