Auction Date:2012 May 16 @ 18:00 (UTC-05:00 : EST/CDT)
Location:5 Rt 101A Suite 5, Amherst, New Hampshire, 03031, United States
ALS - Autograph Letter Signed
ANS - Autograph Note Signed
AQS - Autograph Quotation Signed
AMQS - Autograph Musical Quotation Signed
DS - Document Signed
FDC - First Day Cover
Inscribed - “Personalized”
ISP - Inscribed Signed Photograph
LS - Letter Signed
SP - Signed Photograph
TLS - Typed Letter Signed
Vintage ballpoint signatures, “To Pat, John Lennon,” “Ringo Starr,” “Paul McCartney,” and “George Harrison,” on a pink 6 x 3.5 album page. Signatures were obtained on Monday March 2, 1964, at the Paddington Railway Station during the filming of A Hard Day’s Night. Accompanied by a letter of provenance from the original recipient which reads, “I obtained these Beatles autographs in 1964 when they were making the film ‘A Hard Day’s Night’. My father was a steward on GWR (Great Western Railway) based at Paddington Station where it was being filmed and managed to get all the signatures. I was 15 at the time so you can imagine the thrill I had taking the autographs to school and showing all my friends.” In fine condition, with a vertical fold along left edge and some scattered light toning. Also accompanied by a certificate of authenticity from Tracks, which provides further background about the signatures. In part: “On this day The Beatles became film actors for the first time, hurriedly joining the closed-shop actors’ union Equity only minutes beforehand, on the platform at Paddington Station. They were proposed and seconded by Wilfred Brambell and Norman Rossington, the two main support players in the group’s debut feature film. They were all gathered at Paddington for the first of six days shooting which was to take place on a train. At 8.30 am amid scenes of Beatlemania at Paddington Station, the train pulled out from Platform five and headed for the West Country. After day one The Beatles decided that they couldn’t board the train at Paddington again so they boarded and departed the train at various stations en route.”
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