A silver-plated pencil believed to have belonged to Adolf Hitler has bought for greater than £5,000.

The pencil, which is inscribed with the initials 'AH' bought to a web based bidder at Bloomfield Auctions in Belfast, Northern Ireland.

The bidder paid £5,400 for the pencil, though it had been anticipated to fetch between £50,000 and £80,000.

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

It can be inscribed with 'Eva' in German.

The pencil was initially bought in 2002 by a collector, and remained of their household.

Quite a few different gadgets related to Nazi Germany additionally went underneath the hammer on Tuesday.

An unique signed {photograph} of Hitler bought for £6,200, after anticipating to achieve £10,000 - £15,000. A piece of Swastika bunting bought for £170 and an armband bought for £190.

All gadgets had been purchased by on-line bidders.

The wide-ranging navy public sale had been urged to halt the sale of the Nazi-linked gadgets for ethical causes.

Chairman of the European Jewish Association, Rabbi Menachem Margolin, described the Bloomfield Auction as an "insult to the millions who perished" within the Holocaust, in addition to "the few survivors left, and to Jews everywhere".

However, the public sale home maintained that the gadgets had been a part of historical past, and people who purchase them are "legitimate collectors".

They stated they didn't intend to hunt or trigger misery to anybody or any a part of society.

Other gadgets bought on the public sale included historic British Army medals, deactivated weapons and a uncommon Royal Pardon issued by Queen Victoria to Irish rebels convicted of excessive treason in 1869.