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I play guitar and take photos of stuff. I also like beans on toast.
I think bidding started of at something like 60K - I thought about bidding at that stage just to say I had - Knowing, at least hoping, that someone will come in above me - then bail out of the bidding - Believe the buyer was in the room - So not an on-line purchase
Bidding on that bike (and others) went above my £200 limit, so at the time I was gutted to miss out on a genuine racing bike from the 1970s.
A few months later, when the truth came out about Jimmy Saville, I was glad not to have bought one of his bikes.
The guitar was exhibited at The Beatles Story Museum in Liverpool from 2014-2015 and then offered at Juliens Auctions, New York on 16th May 2015 (ex lot 424 ‘Music Icons’) with a listed hammer price of $485,000.
So.....quick XE conversion, £347,200 = $452,356
Someone picked up a bargain?
As I understand it the guitar never belonged to George, it was a loaner from the shop repairing his Gretsch and was used for The Beatles last ever Cavern performance and all their gigs May to August 1963.
https://i.imgur.com/mD1akDM.jpg
Why would a guitar that George didn't own, only played very briefly and was not used on any Beatles recordings or film of their gigs be worth over a quarter of a million pounds, let alone more than that?
Celebrity association gone bonkers.
And I'm quite a Beatles/George fan...
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