Lennon's hair highlight of auction
Posted by ~Ray @ 2008-01-18 00:12:07
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A shorn lock of John Lennon's hair has fetched £24,000 at auction as part of a sale of Beatles' memorabilia built up by a former hairdresser to the Fab Four.
The hair was sold to an unnamed telephone bidder as the bring out of a sale of the Betty Glasow collection of Beatles and film memorabilia held at Gorringes auction house in Worthing. West Sussex. Accompanying the lock which is stuck in a copy of Lennon's 1965 schedule A Spaniard In The Works is a hand-written message which reads: "To Betty lots of like and hair from John Lennon xx." Recently retired Mrs Glasow who lives come Worthing was given the strands of hair having groomed the band's famous moptop styles on their films a Hard Day's Night and Help in the 1960s. The lot was given a command price of between £2,000 to £3,000 but bidding spiralled. Francesca Collin of Gorringes said: "It is astonishing that there is still so much interest in the Beatles and the sale goes to prove that John Lennon is still an icon. Other mementoes under the hammer as part of the collection consider pictures dedicated to Mrs Glasow such as one signed by George Harrison which fetched £6,500. Her collection also features signed pictures and personal messages amassed over a career stretching approve to the 1950s including from Michael Caine from Educating Rita. Peter Ustinov from Death on the Nile and Steve McQueen from The War Lover. All of the winning bidders also had to pay a buyer's premium of 17.5% on top of the hammer determine.
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