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Beatles Auctions
8 December 2023
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Ahhh Girl said
a-hard-days-night-ringo-8I 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. ahdn_john_08_gif

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’. 

https://www.oxfordmail.co.uk/n…..ire-pub/ 

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4 October 2024
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Apparently high quality soundboard recording of Maple Leaf 1965 concert for sale 

https://www.billboard.com/pro/…..-will-buy/

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16 October 2024
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Thought this may interest some!

20 October 2024
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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.
I’m glad they offer a money back guarantee if it isn’t Lennon’s.

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