A royal presentation silver cigarette case given by George VI to his speech therapist Lionel Logue, the subject of the 2010 film The King’s Speech, sold for £61,000 at Woolley & Wallis in Salisbury.
Estimated at £4000-6000, the case had an accompanying letter from the king to Logue.
Logue was an Australian speech and language therapist and amateur stage actor who was engaged to treat George VI for his stammer in 1926. In the 2010 film, he was played by Geoffrey Rush and the king by Colin Firth.