Golden gnashers
Post categories: In the news
| 17:31 UK time, Thursday, 29 July 2010
Often the only news you hear about auctions is when or has just broken the record for the world's most expensive painting.
Today though the news is about a more modest item, relatively speaking: a pair of dentures that have been . Seems a lot for some false teeth - though they are gold. Oh, and they were worn by Winston Churchill.
They'd be a great item for A History of the World as they were made at the beginning of the second world war, so must be the teeth he was wearing when he made his famous speeches.
They could join the slightly more humble set of false teeth that we have on the site courtesy of Walsall Museum or some of the animal teeth that have been carved and scratched into works of art like this whale's tooth from the HMS Beagle.
Those are some though. Are the gaps and loops meant to grip onto his few remaining teeth? Makes me wonder if we should get a toothbrush on the site as an object that has improved our lives.
- ÌýThe photo of a toothbrush is by and is used .
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