The Top Five... Items of John Lennon memorabilia
http://www.paulfrasercollectibles.com/section.asp?catid=73&docid=2502
24 March 2010
John Lennon remains the #4 highest earning deceased celebrity. Here's
a look at his collectibles...
#5 The famous banned "Butcher cover", signed by Lennon
The Beatles' Yesterday and Today LP originally featured a sleeve
depicting the Fab Four wearing doctors coats, covered in entrails,
meat and decapitated baby dolls. Unsurprisingly, the "Butcher Cover"
was banned, and original LP pressings and sleeves are today highly collectible.
A printer's proof of the infamous butcher cover upon which John
Lennon wrote, "here's the famous banned butcher cover. You can sell
it for $11 million dollars" auctioned, surely enough, with an $11m
price tag. It remained unsold.
More realistically, in December 2005, Heritage Auction Galleries sold
a sealed "first state" copy of the album at auction in Dallas for $39,000.
#4, John Lennon's talisman necklace
The necklace was worn by Lennon on the notorious cover of his 1968
album with Yoko Ono, Two Virgins. It was sold to a private collector
in 2008 for $528,000.
The LP - Lennon's collaborative debut with his artist wife, Ono - is
famous for its avant garde content featuring the ex-Beatle
experimenting with various instruments and sound effects over tape loops.
Later editions of the album obscured the album cover's controversial
depiction of John and Yoko naked, protecting their modesty beneath a
brown paper bag.
#3, Gibson SG guitar played by George Harrison and John Lennon
The classic Gibson guitar was played by Harrison on the Beatles'
Revolver album, and by Lennon on the White Album. It sold to an
anonymous bidder at Christie's for $567,500.
#2, John Lennon's Steinway piano
Pop singer George Michael placed the winning bid for the piano on
which Lennon wrote his song Imagine, in 2000, for $2.1m.
#1, John Lennon's hand painted Rolls Royce Phantom V
The car was sold by Sotheby's to Canadian businessman Jim Pattison in
1985 for $2.23m.
Lennon had his matt black overall Rolls Royce repainted with
'psychedelic' scrolls and flowers by J.P. Fallon Limited, a
coachworks company located in Chertsey, Surrey.
He also had the rear seat modified to convert to a double bed, and
installed a custom interior/exterior sound system with a 'loud
hailer' along with a Sony television and portable refrigerator.
There are a number of other John Lennon and Beatles autographs
currently on the market and avaiable to collectors which you can view
here. http://www.paulfrasercollectibles.com/section.asp?catid=216
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