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It sounds pretty cheap to me. That blood is one of a kind until FDR's blood comes up. | 12 | 34.29% | |
I think that sounds about right for the blood of Britain's greatest leader. | 2 | 5.71% | |
I think that's too much for Churchill blood. Stalin maybe, but not Churchill. | 2 | 5.71% | |
I haven't priced great leaders' blood recently. | 19 | 54.29% | |
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02-27-2015, 11:24 PM | |
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I'm really interested in Winston Churchill's blood.
I saw on another site that the expected sale price was going to be around $900. Doesn't $900 sound cheap for the blood of a person who saved western civilization?
If that's really the price, I might actually submit a bid. http://www.cnn.com/2015/02/25/living...ion/index.html (CNN)"I have nothing to offer but blood, toil, tears and sweat," Winston Churchill once told the British House of Commons. A UK auction house is taking the former prime minister's words literally. Duke's auction house has announced it will auction a vial of Churchill's blood, taken during a hospital stay in 1962, three years before his death. Churchill had fallen out of bed and fractured a hip, necessitating a multiweek stay at Middlesex Hospital. The blood was drawn by nursing student Patricia Fitzgibbon, according to the auction house. The sample was never used and the hospital was set to dispose of it when Fitzgibbon asked to keep it. Before her death, Fitzgibbon gave the vial to a friend, who has decided to sell it. "This is probably the first time that such a personal piece of Churchill's history has been offered on the open market," Duke's said. "This year marks the 50th anniversary of Churchill's death -- the blood is a poignant reminder of an injury which marked the beginning of the end for Churchill, and as such we expect there to be great interest in it." Churchill died in 1965 at age 90. The iconic British leader is best known for his leadership of Britain during World War II. The blood will go up for auction on March 12 in Dorchester, England, along with a signed declaration from Fitzgibbon attesting to its origins. Here's the price estimate: http://www.washingtonpost.com/news/m...auction-block/ Timothy Medhurst, an auctioneer and appraiser at the auction house, told the Guardian that the lot has been estimated to sell at up to $900, but thought it “impossible to put an accurate estimate on this unique piece of history.” |
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02-28-2015, 11:47 AM | #16 |
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02-28-2015, 11:49 AM | #17 |
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I'll just stick with the tears...
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02-28-2015, 12:44 PM | #18 |
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do we think it needs to be refrigerated, or can I just set it out on display? it won't be nearly as awesome if I have to keep it in my freezer.
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02-28-2015, 01:41 PM | #19 |
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Considering probably half of it is booze, they should discount it.
"You, Mr Churchill, are drunk." "And you, Lady Astor, are ugly. But I shall be sober in the morning."
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02-28-2015, 03:14 PM | #20 |
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Wouldn't his heirs have claim to it? What gives this vampire bitch the right to take it? What gives the hospital the right to give it away? What other shit did they just hand out to people? "Can I have that unused piss from Prince Charles?"
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03-18-2015, 08:41 PM | #23 |
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I was seriously planning to bid on this, but they pulled it at the family's wishes. That's probably the right thing to do, but I still wish I had it.
http://www.independent.co.uk/news/pe...-10103315.html
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03-18-2015, 10:51 PM | #26 |
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I was a bit curious about that myself. I'd never seen that spelling before.
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You'll never see anyone pay $900 for Neville Chamberlain's blood, and he looked quite natty in a suit.
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King Edward VIII's dick likely saved Western Civilization.
The guy was a known Nazi sympathizer and encouraged Stanley Baldwin to make peace with Hitler whenever possible. Chamberlain was cut from the same cloth as Baldwin and had Edward not abdicated because evidently Wallace Simpson was a good enough lay to convince you to abdicate the throne of the most powerful country in the world, Chamberlain is never replaced by Churchill, the odds favor Edward siding with Hitler and who the hell knows how things work out? Thank you Wallace Simpson and your voodoo poonanny. And yes, I'd totally pay $900 for Churchill's blood.
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