John Lennon’s lock of hair sold for £24,000

A German hairdresser Klaus Baruck, has offered a lock of John Lennon’s hair, claims he held onto the former Beatle’s tuft after giving him a trim in Hamburg in 1967, which was sold for £24,000 ($35,000).

 

Heritage Auctions in Dallas declared Mr Baruck cut Lennon’s hair in preparation for his role in the dark comedy How I Won The War. In which the Beatles legend portrayed Musketeer Private Gripweed in the Richard Lester film. The haircut took place a month after the release of the legendary Revolver album The hair was also one of several Beatles-related items on auction. A photograph of the iconic hand signed by all four members went for £29,500 ($42,000). A sealed copy of the band’s “butcher” cover for the Yesterday And Today album went for £89,900 $ 125,000.

The auctioneer said “This hair lock is the largest lock of Lennon’s hair ever sold at auction and it can be dated to a specific time and location and has been in the collection of the original owner for all these nearly 50 years.

The winning bidder also received a signed call sheet from the film and two vintage period newspaper articles regarding this landmark haircut according to the auctioneer. The four-inch piece of hair was bought by Paul Fraser, a memorabilia collector from UK. In 2015 a different lock of John Lennon’s hair was sold for a lower sum of $25,600 and in 2007, another sold for $48,000. The Beatles’ annual contribution to Liverpool economy is valued in excess of £82 million.