Via Just Collecting:
A low-numbered copy of the White Album, owned and given away by Beatle George Harrison has made £10,000 at auction.
In 1968 The Beatles released a double album bearing just their name and a number.
The minimalist cover, by pop artist Richard Hamilton, gave it its popular name, The White Album.
And the numbers give some copies enormous value.
Copies of the first release of the album were sequentially numbered.
The Beatles themselves were given the first four. Ringo Starr’s copy, 0000001, was auctioned in 2015 for $790,000.
Number 0000005, the first albums sold to the public realised over £19,000 on eBay in 2008.
This copy was numbered 0000012 and had been the property of George Harrison and his wife Pattie.
They gave it to a friend.
A letter from that friend provided with the record says: “There was a low number copy of the White Album that they’d brought round to the flat one day and when I spoke to George on the phone I mentioned I had it, he said – ‘keep it, it’s yours’.”
It was sold at an online sale that ended on Monday, by Tracks.
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