German WWII Lorenz coding machine found in English garden shed sold on eBay

LONDON – One of the machines used to send coded messages between Adolf Hitler and his generals sold for 10 ( 14) on eBay after being discovered in a shed in England, the buyer said Sunday. Researchers at The National Museum of Computing at Bletchley Park saw a "telegram machine" for sale on the auction site for 9.50, and believed it may have actually been a Lorenz machine, used by the German Army to send top-secret coded messages. "My colleague was scanning eBay and he saw a photograph of what seemed to be the teleprinter," John Wetter, a volunteer at the museum in Buckinghamshire, northwest of London, told the BBC. To investigate further, Wetter traveled to the town of Southend, in southeast England, where he found the machine, which resembles a typewriter, on the floor of a shed, covered "with rubbish." "We said'Thank you very much, how much was it again?' She said ' 9.50?, so we said'Here's a 10 note -- keep the change," he added.