Hitler’s silver-plated pencil ‘given to him as a birthday present by Eva Braun’ sells for just £5,400… a TENTH of its pre-auction estimate

• The pencil had been expected to fetch between £50,000 – £80,000
• It is believed to have been given to the Nazi dictator by his partner Eva Braun

A silver-plated pencil purported to have belonged to Adolf Hitler has sold for one-tenth of its pre-auction estimate at just £5,400. 

The pencil, which was sold to an online bidder at Bloomfield Auctions in Belfast today, had been expected to fetch between £50,000 – £80,000. 

It is believed the pencil had been given to the Nazi dictator by his long-term partner Eva Braun as a gift for his 52nd birthday during WW2 on April 20, 1941. 

It is inscribed with ‘Eva’, who met Hitler when she was 17 years old, in German and the initials ‘AH’. 

An original signed photograph of Hitler, expected to sell for between £10,000 and £15,000, is also going under the hammer. 

A silver-plated pencil purported to have belonged to Adolf Hitler has sold for one-tenth of its pre-auction estimate at just £5,400

It is believed the pencil had been given to the Nazi dictator (pictured) by his long-term partner Eva Braun as a gift for his 52nd birthday during WW2 on April 20, 1941

An original signed photograph of Hitler, expected to sell for between £10,000 and £15,000, is also going under the hammer

The pencil was originally purchased by a collector at an auction in 2002 and since then has remained in the collector’s family. 

Bloomfield Auctions was urged to halt the sale for moral reasons by the chairman of the European Jewish Association, Rabbi Menachem Margolin. 

He described the trade in items which belonged to senior Nazis as ‘an insult to the millions who perished’ in the holocaust, as well as ‘the few survivors left, and to Jews everywhere’. 

However the auction house stressed that the item is a part of history, adding those who buy such items are ‘legitimate collectors who have a passion for history’. 

They insisted they did not seek to cause hurt or distress to any one or any part of society, adding: ‘All items have a story and tell of a particular time in history.’ 

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