Three items deriving from a voyage made by Winston Churchill aboard the Cunard-White Star Line ocean liner, the RMS Queen Mary: a vintage glossy 6.5 x 4.75 photo of Churchill, a cigar in one hand and a cane in other, walking in the center of several men while onboard the vessel, signed below in bold ink, “Winston S. Churchill.” The lower left of the photo is stamped “Photographed on board RMS ‘Queen Mary,’” and the reverse bears Velox watermarks. Also included is a pair of cigars that were gifted to the photo’s owner, an immigration officer of the Queen Mary: the cigars measure 4.5″ and 6.75″ in length, with the shorter example, a Cuban cigar, in fine condition and housed in its original Romeo y Julieta case, and the longer cigar showing signs of disintegration and unwrapping. Also included is another ‘Queen Mary’ photograph of two unidentified men, one of them ostensibly the referenced officer. In overall fine condition. Accompanied by a letter of provenance from the son of the original recipient: “These cigars were given to my father when he was the First Class Passenger Immigration Officer aboard the Queen Liners. This was the primary service between the UK and USA before aviation, and meant that the first class passengers were ‘processed’ before their arrival at Southampton. Sir Winston Churchill was impressed by this service, hence the cigars and the autograph.”
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