John’s School Book Fetches $226,150 At Auction
Bloomberg,com reports that John Lennon’s schoolbook, entitled “My Anthology,” fetched 126,500 pounds ($226,150) at a London sale of rock memorabilia last night. Auction house Cooper Owen Plc had set a minimum price of 100,000 pounds for the 12-year- old’s scribbles and drawings.
“It is fitting that one of the earliest items from Britain’s greatest songwriter has fetched such a significant amount,” Cooper Owen Director of Acquisitions Ted Owen said in a statement.