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Article: A hair-raising pounds 24,000 for Lennon's lock; 'Moptop' strand raised 10 times guide price.(News)
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- Daily Post (Liverpool, England)
- Article date:
- December 13, 2007
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Byline: BY TOM PUGH Daily Post Correspondent
A SHORN lock of John Lennon's hair fetched pounds 24,000 at auction yesterday as part of a sale of Beatles' memorabilia built up by a former hairdresser to the group.
The hair was sold - at more than 10 times the lowest guide price - to an unnamed telephone bidder.
It was the highlight of a sale of the Betty Glasow collection of Beatles and film memorabilia held at Gorringes auction house in Worthing, West Sussex.
Accompanying the lock, which is stuck in a copy of Lennon's 1965 book A Spaniard In The Works, is a hand-written message which reads: "To Betty, lots of love and hair, from John ...