A sofa that had once belonged to Winston Churchill fetched £7,500 at a recent English auction. It's pre-sale estimate was £50-80.Found during a house clearance in the shed of a Northamptonshire vicarage, the distressed Chesterfield was promoted to the auction rooms when the brother of the late owner mentioned the connection. The late-19th-century leather settee had graced Churchill’s private Whitehall office during his second premiership from 1951 to 1955, before he gave it to a friend from Northamptonshire.
Jonathan Humbert, of JP Humbert Auctioneers sold the piece. “We were going to throw it away but when the chap mentioned its Churchill link, we thought we’d run it for a bit of a laugh,” the Telegraph quoted him as saying. “On the one hand it’s clapped out, but on the other hand it’s got this illustrious heritage. Who knows what famous rears sat on it,” he added.
