Fab Four autographs up for sale
A FULL set of autographs signed in Amesbury by The Beatles is expected to make up to £3,000 when it goes under the auctioneer's hammer in just a fortnight's time.
The autographs were scrawled on a "tatty" birth certificate belonging to a serviceman stationed on Salisbury Plain during the mid 1960s.
He met the Fab Four when they were filming Help! With the Royal Scots Greys and shared a few drinks with them in an Amesbury pub before getting John Lennon, Paul McCartney, George Harrison and Ringo Starr to sign the certificate.
Amy Brenan, a valuer at Duke's auction house in Dorchester, which is handling the sale, said: "When a local gentleman pulled out a tatty bit of paper from the pocket of his wax jacket, I was rather surprised he thought it was something special.
"When I unfolded the paper, I realised that the signatures were written in black ink on the back of the gentleman's birth certificate.
"The gentleman told me that the only piece of paper he had on him was his birth certificate and so he asked the band to sign it for him."
The signatures are to go under the hammer at a specialist sale on April 10 and 11."
8:29am Monday 24th March 2008
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