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I wonder if Linda took those pictures of Paul and Stella.
I wonder if Linda took those pictures of Paul and Stella.She did, but those pictures are of Paul with Mary.
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Glass and pictures up for auction at the end of this month.
If the glasses didn't belong to John, I wonder who went looking for their glasses and couldn't find them. 
https://hellorayo.co.uk/heat/u.....sses-sale/
A pair of glasses gifted by John Lennon are set to go on sale, expecting to fetch thousands of pounds.
Lennon had given the glasses to a young man who had been visiting Abbey Road studios on his birthday in 1968.
The man had been visiting the studios alongside his girlfriend when he saw the pair of glasses laying on a piano.
After going to pick the glasses up, his girlfriend told him not to touch them, to which Lennon said: "It's okay, he can have them."
It is not known who the original owners of the glasses were, though they are now being sold at auction alongside a number of black and white photographs.
The photos, taken between 1968 and 1969, were taken by the man who was gifted the glasses and feature the Beatles both as a band and individually.
According to the descriptions, some of the photos taken were caught on the same day as the famous "Abbey Road " album cover was shot, featuring the band walking across a zebra crossing.
Auctioneers at Catherine Southon have estimated the glasses to be worth as much as £3,000, with the photos expected to be sold for between £200 and £300.
The glasses and photos will be sold at auction on July 31st in Farleigh Golf Club, Surrey.
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Uri Geller bought the glasses for his museum paying £40k.
[Gellar] said he had a “really close” friendship with John Lennon , “because we had an amazing connection”.
The showman, now in his 70s, added: "John changed my life as that's where I learned about spirituality.
"He believed in UFOs and I believed in UFOs and he was fascinated by my alien collection.
"He gave me an alien egg."
Mr Geller said the glasses will be displayed prominently in the John Lennon section of his museum in Tel Aviv alongside the alien egg.
Anyone wanting to see John's alien egg only has to go to Tel Aviv.
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A lined paper consisting of 4 original autographs and a Dezo Hoffman black and white publicity photo also signed by all 4 Beatles will be up for auction on Monday 16th at The Swan in Tetsworth, near Thame, Oxfordshire. The auction will be filmed for the BBC programme, 'The Travelling Auctioneers'.
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Apparently high quality soundboard recording of Maple Leaf 1965 concert for sale
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Thought this may interest some!
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Here's the post I made about the amp being found... https://www.beatlesbible.com/f.....8/#p388563
Here's a story that includes the video from the post above.
https://www.guitarworld.com/ge.....mp-auction
Some of the article...
The Vox AC15 Twin, believed to be the unit purchased by Lennon at Liverpool’s Hessy’s Music, is going under the hammer with an auction estimate of $130,000-$260,000.
An amp believed to be John Lennon ’s first Vox – used in Cavern shows and in the recording of the Beatles' first EMI sessions, including the tracks Please Please Me and Love Me Do – is going up for auction via Propstore next month (November 15).
Back in July, in a Guitar World exclusive, we reported that the 1962 Vox AC15 Twin, bearing the serial number 4583, had been spotted and purchased after it resurfaced on an auction site in December 2023.
At the time, the listing showed an amp that had been painted black and did not detail a serial number. The current owner (and a few other bidders) only spotted the correlation after requesting additional pictures, eventually securing the unit for a final bid of £16,000.
Now, restored to its original fawn finish and with period-correct speakers, it's headed back to auction, but this time with the Lennon association front and center of the listing – and an estimated price of $130,000-$260,000.
The auction house behind the sale, Propstore, tells GW that it has conducted its own research and checks to authenticate the amp and is confident that it is Lennon’s unit. This counts for something as the firm’s policy essentially offers a money-back guarantee of authenticity.
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John Lennon 's Last Autograph (REAL).
On December 7, 1980 Willie Nile and John Lennon were recording at The Record Plant studio in New York City when engineer Thom Panunzio called saying, “John broke a string on his guitar. Do you have any extra strings?" Willie did have extra strings and gave them to John Lennon . The next day December 8, 1980 Willie and John Lennon were again at the Record Plant recording. That evening when John was about to walk out the door of the Record Plant, Thom Penunzio asked John Lennon for an autograph for his friend Karl. John mistakenly thought it was for the person who gave him the guitar strings the day before so John signed a Record Plant tape sticker “To Karl, who strung me along, thanks John Lennon 1980". John also drew a self-portrait caricature. John Lennon then left the record plant by limousine at approximately 10:30 pm, arriving at The Dakota at approximately 10:50 when he was shot dead. This would be the last autograph John Lennon would ever sign. This is perhaps the most important autograph in Rock and Roll History.
Gotta Have Rock & Roll is excited to bring this autograph back after being sold for $72,000 in 2012.
Good condition, measuring 10 x 11 inches, signed in marker slight fading.
Framed.
Minimum bid: $60,000
Estimate: $80,000-$100,000
I don't understand bidding all that well, but the site says in about 2 days and 3 hours from now (so that will be the evening of April 25th) there's extended bidding. Don't even know if I'm saying that correctly.
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This is a bittersweet story for me, and I think it’s ultimately a good one considering the circumstances. John’s last autograph was not for the jerk, but for someone else. He was also showing his trademark humour right until the end, literally minutes before he was taken from humanity.
Just imagine being the guy who was there as John signed the sticker and saw him walk away for the last time. I get the feeling people wouldn’t be very familiar with the story either as the signed Double Fantasy is a lot more prominently reported and ironic.
As for the actual autograph, I sincerely hope whoever wins the bid keeps it safe. Its value is beyond money IMO.
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