SGT. PEPPER CUT OUT UP FOR AUCTION

[beatlz]

Among the many Beatles lots is a life-size cut-out of Marlene Dietrich used for the album cover of Sergeant Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band will be up for sale tomorrow at Christie's Auctionhouse in London.

[Hari Krishna]

I'd like to post that on the wall of my room:)

[SF4-EVER]

Thanks for letting us know, beatlz.

[beatlz]

i didn't see the marlene dietrich cutout but you can see alot of nifty items up for auction at Christie's here:

http://www.christies.com/LotFinder/search/searchresults.asp?entry=beatles

[beatlz]

correction! i did find it after all on marlene dietrich:

http://www.christies.com/LotFinder/search/LotDetail.asp?sid=&intObjectID=4086802&SE=CMWCAT04+138298+1520242532+&QR=M+1+0+Aqc0000900+117624++Aqc0000900+&entry=marlene+dietrich&SU=1& RQ=False&AN=1

[beatlz]

High price for Beatles' cover figure


Dietrich featured on the band's most famous LP cover
A cardboard cut-out of Marlene Dietrich that was used on the cover of the Beatles' Sergeant Pepper album has sold at auction for £86,250.

The price paid by a private Italian collector was more than four times what Christie's auction house in London had expected it to fetch.

The cut-out, which was signed by all four Beatles and the album's cover artist Peter Blake, was part of a sale of hundreds of items of pop memorabilia.


Other Beatles' highlights included a rare concert programme from April 1964 signed by all four members of the band, along with self-portrait caricatures.

A signed 1968 demo record of The Beatles' Hey Jude/Revolution made by Trident Studios was expected to fetch up to £6,000.