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I am not sure who had them to start with, after Winston I mean lol, no doubt they are pleased with the money they got but for all we know they might donate some to charity which would be nice.
I laughed at the 'custom built' bit, aren't all teeth custom built lol?

Lizx

well if I had a spare £15,000 I wouldn't be spending it on someone else's old choppers!

And just think how many children with mouth deformities could be helped with that amount of money by The Smile Train surgeons.

lolol

I do love Pam Ayres..... but Churchill's teeth??
I don't think so, no matter how much money I had.

They would be of historical value to the country, as would the Churchill papers which the family sold 'us' for MILLIONS.
I was always under the impression that history belonged to the people.
Ah well, wrong again.
Deanna X

Hi love,

thanks for the lovely birthday card, still trying to remember who else to thank, I was so lucky and had lots of lovely cards and things.


I dread the thought of having false teeth altho I am sure my poor old gnashers won't last me much longer, some are loose as my gums have shrunk badly and I get worried if I bite too hard on nuts or such.

Take care and remember the Pam Ayres poem about teeth lol

Lizxx

Oh, I wish I'd looked after me teeth,
And spotted the perils beneath,
All the toffees I chewed,
And the sweet sticky food,
Oh, I wish I'd looked after me teeth.

I wish I'd been that much more willin'
When I had more tooth there than fillin'
To pass up gobstoppers,
From respect to me choppers
And to buy something else with me shillin'.

When I think of the lollies I licked,
And the liquorice allsorts I picked,
Sherbet dabs, big and little,
All that hard peanut brittle,
My conscience gets horribly pricked.

My Mother, she told me no end,
"If you got a tooth, you got a friend"
I was young then, and careless,
My toothbrush was hairless,
I never had much time to spend.

Oh I showed them the toothpaste all right,
I flashed it about late at night,
But up-and-down brushin'
And pokin' and fussin'
Didn't seem worth the time... I could bite!

If I'd known I was paving the way,
To cavities, caps and decay,
The murder of fiIlin's
Injections and drillin's
I'd have thrown all me sherbet away.

So I lay in the old dentist's chair,
And I gaze up his nose in despair,
And his drill it do whine,
In these molars of mine,
"Two amalgum," he'll say, "for in there."

How I laughed at my Mother's false teeth,
As they foamed in the waters beneath,
But now comes the reckonin'
It's me they are beckonin'
Oh, I wish I'd looked after me teeth.

Some people collect the strangest things eh lol?

Lizx

Errgh!! I wouldn't want to own anyones false teeth!! LOL

Winston Churchill's dentures sell for £15,200

Last updated: 29/07/2010 13:47:00

A set of dentures belonging to one of the country's most famous sons whose voice became the emblem of the British stiff upper lip during the Second World War have sold at auction for more than £15,000.

The gold-mounted dentures were custom-built for wartime prime minister Winston Churchill, and came up for auction at Keys in Aylsham today.

The partial dentures, valued at an estimated £4,000-£5,000, fetched £15,200, with nine bidders competing over the telephone to get their hands on the prized mouthpiece.

The dentures were snapped up by a private collector from Gloucestershire, who also owns the microphone which Churchill used to announce the end of the war.