ORIGINAL BEATLES ESTATE TO GO ON AUCTION
ORIGINAL BEATLES ESTATE TO GO ON AUCTION
NEW YORK (Wireless Flash) Listen up Beatles buffs: The entire estate of original band member Stuart Sutcliffe will soon be up for auction. Next month, Mick Fleetwoods Fleetwood Owen auction house will sell more than 400 items that belonged to the legendary Fifth Beatle, including hundreds of letters tracing the bands earliest history and a cheap guitar Sutcliffe used to audition for the group. There are also more than 50 canvases of modern art painted by Sutcliffe. Auctioneer Ted Owen who recently sold John Lennons Imagine piano says hes never sold anything as historic and hes expecting the goods will go for about $4.3 million. The auction starts November 27.
Thu 10-11-01