JD Salinger toilet on sale for $1m

A toilet alleged to have once belonged to author JD Salinger has been put on eBay for $1m (£644,00).

According to the BBC, the seller claims to have acquired the "used toilet commode" from the owners of a house that Salinger once owned. The toilet is said to be "uncleaned and in its original condition".

"Who knows how many of [his] stories were thought up and written while Salinger sat on this throne!" the listing adds.

The item comes with a letter from the owners of the house in Cornish, New Hampshire, confirming that they removed the toilet during renovations.

Salinger, who died in January at the age of 91, is best known for writing the book Catcher in the Rye.