A London to New York in-flight menu signed by The Beatles has sold for $100,000 at auction in the United States.
It’s 1964. February 7th. And The Beatles are in the air on a flight. Their arrival in the US is greeted with mass hysteria and the most famous television appearance in American music history, their performance on the Ed Sullivan Show.
This item was a Pan American Flight 101 Menu sold with 10 photos from the flight. It was signed by all four Beatles, plus manager Brian Epstein, Cynthia Lennon, newspaper journalist George Harrison Sr (who worked for the Liverpool Echo), and the flight’s captain.
The menu itself is quite an item, a 10″ by 12 3/4″ folder illustrated in colour. Some of the flight photos are badly blurred.
Sellers Heritage Auctions described this item as “a piece of pop culture history”, and “one of the most significant signed Beatles items in existence.”
The final selling price of $100,000 including buyer’s premium is a strong showing for Beatles signatures.
This menu was only the fourth most valuable item in its sale, themed to the Beatles’ arrival in America.
The top item was John Lennon’s personal copy of The White Album, which sold for $162,500; a set of photographs from the Abbey Road album cover “zebra crossing” photoshoot made the same price; and a sealed, “first state”, copy of the Yesterday and Today album with notorious “butcher sleeve” realised $112,500.
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