Churchill's blood valued at £560,000. Take that Stalin!

The blood circulating in Winston Churchill's veins was worth around £560,000, on the basis of a valuation placed on a small phial of it being auctioned next month. Dukes Auctions is estimating the phial of his blood obtained by a nurse in 1962 could fetch £1,000, although a spokeswoman from the auction house said that due to …

[Anonymous Coward]

Well, I imagine that Churchill drank good stuff

So I'm betting that the value of his blood would go up once you factor in the high-quality alcohol content.

[Voland's right hand]

Re: Well, I imagine that Churchill drank good stuff

I would not be so sure about that. In fact, I suspect a fake - it should have been perfectly preserved by its original alcohol quotinent.

[jake]

Upper-class twit of the year.

Enough said.

On the other hand, "Yes, Madam, I am drunk, but in the morning I shall be sober and you will still be ugly."

Very different times ... Live & learn. I try.

[John Brown (no body)]

Re: Upper-class twit of the year.

Since I can't both up vote you and down vote you I shall refrain from either.

He was a man of his time and product of his experiences.

[Thomas Gray]

New measures for the Reg Standards Soviet?

Just think, now you can convert monetary amounts into ml/pints/Churchills of blood, and value volumes in the same way...

[Ken 16]

How many clones?

How many little Boys from Blenheim can the 1922 committee clone from that?

I assume the toil, tears & sweat will reach the podium in the near future.

[JonP]

"El Reg wonders how much our current leaders' blood would be worth"

a quick google for the price of lizard blood didn't turn up much...

[Anonymous Coward]

I think you'd get a lot of money for the right to DRAIN the blood of our current political leaders, but that's not quite the same thing :)

[Graham Marsden]

"El Reg wonders how much our current leaders' blood would be worth"

I can just see the Daily Mail headline now:

"Online news site's users out for blood!"

[Chris G]

Re: "El Reg wonders how much our current leaders' blood would be worth"

Our current leaders blood would not be worth very much,

all there is is a little dried up clot!!

[Anonymous Coward]

Bah, everyone has a vial some famous persons blood in the junk drawer.

We need to know the value of Sinus Fluid...

[h4rm0ny]

Some people are weird...

(See title.)

[Adolph Clickbait]

Weird

This fetish for body bits, mind you the religious are by far the worst for this.

[Anonymous Coward]

Investment idea

El Reg readers : store away some of your bodily fluids in the attic. As many different kinds of body fluid as you can muster. Antiques Roadshow 2115 would get a sudden rush of surprising valuation objects....

[Mike Moyle]

I'll bet Peggy is kicking herself now for dumping out that vial of Steve's blood into the East River!

[chivo243]

All his blood?

Was all of his blood saved? If not, then the one vial should be worth much more since that is all there is left. Or have I confused comic books for Churchill's blood?

[fearnothing]

an envelope surely?