On March 12, you can bid on a vial of Winston Churchill's blood.
Then all you'll need, ahem, is some toil, tears, and sweat!
In 1962, a nurse at Middlesex Hospital in London, where Churchill was a patient, snagged it as a souvenir. From the New York Times:
The market value of the vial "is a very difficult thing to estimate," Timothy Medhurst, an auctioneer and appraiser at Duke's, said. He noted that Churchill's cigar butts have been known to change hands for 500 pounds, about $773, but the blood sample "is the closest you can get to Churchill."
"There is nothing to guide it, because nothing like it has ever come up to auction," Mr. Medhurst said, calling the vial "the most poignant and unique memorabilia we've ever had."
