Pencil purported to have belonged to Adolf Hitler sells for £5,400 at Belfast auction

The pencil is believed to have been given to the Nazi dictator by his long-term partner Eva Braun (Bloomfield Auctions/Kelvin Boyes/PressEye)

A silver-plated pencil purported to have belonged to Adolf Hitler has sold for one-tenth of its pre-auction estimate at a Belfast auction house.

The pencil sold for £5,400 to an online bidder at Bloomfield Auctions on Tuesday.