Winston in wax and shellac

Madame Tussauds added Winston Churchill to their waxwork tableaux for the first time in 1908, but had produced another half dozen portraits before his death in 1965. The last of them was put up for sale by Dominic Winter on May 18.

The vendor was Ashton Taylor Smith, who happens to live in Westerham, near Churchill's home at Chart…

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