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Churchill turd sells for £1m at auction

A massive turd, thought to have been left behind in a lavatory at the War Office by Sir Winston Churchill, has sold for a record-breaking £1million at Christie’s auction house in London.

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Posted: Jun 3rd, 2010
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Newspaper with mistake fetches £250k at auction

A rare copy of The Guardian containing a printing error fetched a record £250,000 at auction yesterday. Some 20,000 copies of the paper were printed in 1992 before the mistake was noticed. Most of the defective copies were immediately pulped but a small number found their way into the hands of collectors.

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Posted: Jul 2nd, 2009
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