Lennon's lost guitar for sale

Feb 17 2004

Liverpool Echo

A GUITAR believed to have been engraved by John Lennon was put up for sale yesterday for £1.3m. The "lost" guitar is adorned with a heart pierced by an arrow and a self portrait. The six-string acoustic guitar, discovered in a house clearance in New York, is decorated with a letter B, for Beatles, a drawing of an apple and the numbers nine and two threes, representing the birthdays of John, Yoko and son Sean. It was acquired by memorabilia website momentsintime. com which recently offered for sale the album cover signed by Lennon for Mark Chapman, hours before Chapman shot him dead in New York. Story continues ADVERTISEMENT Website curator Gary Zimet said: "Beyond it being an instrument on which he played, it's also an extraordinary work of art."

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