A US audition company well noted for dishing out high profile celebrity sports and entertainment auctions has sold a ‘lost’ guitar which belonged to British singer and songwriter-John Lennon, for a huge sum of money.
Julien’s Auctions announced on its website that the auction house made history by selling the most important Beatles’ guitar to ever hit the auction block for a world record $2,410,000.00.
A report by the Associated Press also indicates that the late John Lennon used the guitar to record and write “Love Me Do,” ”I Want to Hold Your Hand” and other hit songs.
The auction house however, refused to disclose the person who the Gibson J-160E guitar was sold to on Saturday.
A report from AP:
The auction house said the guitar was one of only two of its type flown from America to England in 1962 for Lennon and George Harrison. Lennon used the guitar for about a year before swapping it with Harrison; it later went missing during a Christmas concert in 1963.
The guitar’s whereabouts was unknown for over 50 years until a California man discovered last year that a guitar in his possession may have historical value.
John McCaw of San Diego, who bought the guitar in the late 1960s for $275, stumbled on an old magazine story about Harrison, which featured a photo of the instrument which bore similar markings as his guitar.
An expert was able match the guitar’s serial number, wood grain and markings to the one Lennon used in the early 1960s, Julien’s Auction said in a news release.
The drum head that the Beatles used in their landmark performance on “The Ed Sullivan Show” was auctioned Saturday for $2.1 million, the auction house said.
This post was published on November 9, 2015 12:45 PM
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