Beatles autographs fetch $59K in auction
$59,750.00 was the winning bid for this very famous set of autographs from all four of The Beatles, during their visit with Elvis on August 27th, 1965.
The auction was held on April 5th at Heritage Auction Galleries in Dallas. I was talking to my friend at FansOnTheRun about what a big deal it is for Beatle fans, so we decided to verify the story.
It took some searching, but we finally found a link that confirms the story that this indeed was a valid auction sale. It was lot #30321 in Heritage entertainment memorabilia auction #688 described as Beatles’ Autographs on Elvis’ Personal Stationery – August 27, 1965.
As the story goes…The Beatles were scheduled to play the Balboa Stadium in San Diego and Elvis was filming Paradise, Hawaiian Style in Hollywood. On the night of August 27, 1965, John Lennon, Paul McCartney, George Harrison and Ringo Starr arrived at Elvis’s house in Bel Air, where Elvis personally greeted them at the door for what became known as the “summit meeting” of pop music and rock and roll.
During that meeting Jerry Schilling, a member of Elvis’s “Memphis Mafia,” got the autographs of all four Beatles on a 5″ x 8″ piece of Elvis Presley’s personal stationery, and dated the event “8/27/65.” Of course, the signatures of all four of The Beatles on the stationery of “the King” is pretty amazing and very rare.
Naturally, celebrity autographs have to be authenticated, with the best means being press and photographic evidence. Accompanying the auction lot was a copy of Disc Weekly (dated September 4, 1965,) and The National Blast Weekly (dated October 10, 1965,) both with front page headlines, “Beatles Meet Elvis!!!”
Thursday, April 17th, 2008
Written by: Mike Withrow
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