Nov 01, 2016 - Sale 2428

Sale 2428 - Lot 59

Price Realized: $ 5,750
?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 4,000 - $ 6,000
RINGO IS THE SHORT ONE (BEATLES, THE.) Poster Signed by each member: John Lennon * George Harrison * Paul McCartney * Ringo Starr (additionally Inscribed in holograph below his name: "5'7" [five feet, seven inches]"). The poster, showing four ink blots suggesting four standing human figures, a reproduction of an artwork by D. Spence, 1964. 18x14 inches; slight fading to signatures, faint scattered dampstaining, horizontal fold through Starr's signature (without loss), some brittling and chipping and closed tears at all edges, printed "beatles" label mounted recto at lower margin, notes written in unknown hand verso. Np, [1964]

Additional Details

From the files of Saturday Evening Post Editor in Chief William A. Emerson, Jr., who was Executive Editor when the Post featured the Beatles on its cover in the March and August issues of that magazine.