The Weirdest & Most Expensive Beatles Artifacts You Can Buy
And this is where things start to get disgusting. A dentist in Canada, the aptly named Michael Zuk, paid an eye-watering £30,000 for one of John Lennon’s discarded teeth. What’s perhaps more disturbing is the fact the buyer has begun sequencing the DNA from the ‘discoloured molar’ in the hope of eventually cloning the singer. Now that would be some crowning glory…
Who knew 50 years ago that a piece of 4-foot-by-2-foot plastic wall from The Ed Sullivan Show that The Beatles all signed and drew squiggly faces on would threaten to reach a million quid half a century on? The Beatles? Just a band. But after this one TV show, a worldwide phenomenon, there’d be no going back.
The celebrated English potter Laura Bailey made some ceramic heads of the Beatles once upon a time, and a special large teapot of Ringo’s head is currently up for grabs for £75 on eBay. One can only assume the John, Paul and George teapots have been snapped up already.
While you’re unlikely to make a killing as a toilet salesman unless you’re handling a graffitied Marcel Duchamp urinal, you could be quids in if you happened across the bog utilised by John Lennon between 1969 and 1972 at his Berkshire home. It sold for a staggering £9,500 in 2010 - 10 times the expected price -snapped up by a “private overseas buyer”.
A lock of hair that grew out of the head of John Lennon (who else?) sold at auction for £24,000 in 2007. The snipped follicles had been saved by John’s hairdresser, Betty Glasgow, who probably wishes she’d saved the cup he drank out of, the cigarette he stubbed out, the ashtray he stubbed it into, the air that he breathed...
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