Cigars loved by Churchill to be auctioned in June

Wednesday, May 12 2010

Source: National Post

Some humidor! Rare box preserved for 50 years

LONDON -- A rare box of the Cuban cigars cherished by Winston Churchill and preserved for almost 60 years are going up for auction in London next month.

The wartime British prime minister's penchant for Romeo y Julieta Piramides cigars became part of his pugnacious image as a leader who defied the might of Hitler's Nazi Germany. The picture of Mr. Churchill giving the two-fingered victory sign with a cigar in his mouth is a classic Second World War image...story continues here