{"id":7925,"date":"2011-11-19T02:06:49","date_gmt":"2011-11-19T07:06:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.moviepropcollectors.com\/magazine\/?p=7925"},"modified":"2011-11-22T13:39:37","modified_gmt":"2011-11-22T18:39:37","slug":"paul-mccartney-letter-seeking-drummer-for-beatles-sells-for-34850","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.moviepropcollectors.com\/magazine\/paul-mccartney-letter-seeking-drummer-for-beatles-sells-for-34850\/","title":{"rendered":"&#8220;Paul McCartney&#8221; letter seeking drummer for &#8220;Beatles&#8221; sells for \u00a334,850"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.moviepropcollectors.com\/magazine\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/11\/BeatlesLetterChristies.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-7929\" title=\"BeatlesLetterChristies\" src=\"http:\/\/www.moviepropcollectors.com\/magazine\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/11\/BeatlesLetterChristies-300x265.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"265\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.moviepropcollectors.com\/magazine\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/11\/BeatlesLetterChristies-300x265.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.moviepropcollectors.com\/magazine\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/11\/BeatlesLetterChristies-338x300.jpg 338w, https:\/\/www.moviepropcollectors.com\/magazine\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/11\/BeatlesLetterChristies.jpg 562w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a>London Auction house, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.christies.com\/\" target=\"_blank\"><strong><em>Christie&#8217;s<\/em><\/strong><\/a>, has sold a letter written by <em>Paul McCartney<\/em> in 1960 for \u00a334,850 with BP ($55,412). The auction estimate was \u00a37000~\u00a39000.<\/p>\n<p>The letter was to an unknown drummer who placed an advertisement looking work. <em>Paul McCartney<\/em> wrote a letter to the person and offered them an audition for &#8220;<em>The Beatles<\/em>&#8220;.<\/p>\n<p>A telephone bidder from Europe bought the item dated August 12th, 1960. The letter was discovered inside a book bought in Liverpool by a coin collector.<\/p>\n<p>Also sold at the <em>Pop Culture: Rock and Pop Memorabilia<\/em> auction, was a hand-written sign that <em>John Lennon<\/em> and <em>Yoko Ono<\/em> displayed during one of their <em>bed-ins<\/em> at the <em>Queen Elizabeth<\/em> hotel in Montreal in 1969 sold for \u00a397,250.<\/p>\n<p><small>*Photgraph \u00a9Christie&#8217;s<\/small><\/p>\n<iframe id=\"basic_facebook_social_plugins_likebutton\" src=\"http:\/\/www.facebook.com\/plugins\/like.php?href=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.moviepropcollectors.com%2Fmagazine%2Fpaul-mccartney-letter-seeking-drummer-for-beatles-sells-for-34850%2F&amp;layout=standard&amp;show_faces=false&amp;width=&amp;action=like&amp;font=arial&amp;colorscheme=light\" scrolling=\"no\" frameborder=\"0\" allowTransparency=\"true\" style=\"border:none; overflow:hidden; width:px; height:25px\"><\/iframe>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp; London Auction house, Christie&#8217;s, has sold a letter written by Paul McCartney in 1960 for \u00a334,850 with BP ($55,412). The auction estimate was \u00a37000~\u00a39000. The letter was to an unknown drummer who placed an advertisement looking work. Paul McCartney wrote a letter to the person and offered them an audition for &#8220;The Beatles&#8220;. 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