Key to Paul McCartney's childhood home sells for £6,100 at auction
The original brass Yale key to Paul McCartney's childhood home at 20 Forthlin Road, Liverpool, sold for £6,100 at Dominic Winter Auctioneers to a private collector. The sale price was three times the low estimate.
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Centre · 1The original brass Yale key to Sir Paul McCartney's childhood home sold for £6,100 at auction. Evening StandardN “The key to Sir Paul McCartney’s childhood home has sold for £6,100 at auction.” Read at Evening Standard ↗ Centre · 1Dominic Winter Auctioneers sold it to a private collector for three times its pre-sale estimate of £2,000-£3,000. Evening StandardN “The original brass Yale house key sold at UK auctioneers Dominic Winter for three times its pre-sale estimate of £2,000-£3,000 to a private collector.” Read at Evening Standard ↗ Centre · 1The house at 20 Forthlin Road, Liverpool, is where McCartney lived with his family from 1955 until late 1963, and where he wrote songs and made early home recordings with John Lennon. Evening StandardN “It is also where he spent time writing and developing songs with John Lennon and made early home recordings with the band.”“is where the Beatles star lived with his family from 1955 until late 1963 before he rose to fame.” Read at Evening Standard ↗
Centre · 1The house was built in 1949 and has been owned by the National Trust since 1995. McCartney lived there with his parents, Mary and Jim, and his younger brother Mike, and Mary died a year after the move. Evening StandardN “The house has been owned by the National Trust since 1995”“Sadly, only a year after the family moved in, Mary died.” Read at Evening Standard ↗ Centre · 1The key came with a three-page letter from the then occupant, Ashley Jones, and a period photograph of the house. Jones wrote to 13-year-old New York Beatles fan Kathleen Salt (née Duffy) that he had been given two original keys and believed the one he sent could have been McCartney's. Evening StandardN “She received a three-page handwritten reply from Ashley Jones explaining that he had been given two original keys to the property and believed the key he was sending Kathy could have been Sir Paul’s.” Read at Evening Standard ↗ Centre · 1Four Beatles autographs inscribed to "Kathy", with photographs and a newsletter, were also sold. Her father, Frank Duffy, who worked for the band's security team on their first American tour in 1964, had obtained them. They sold together for £5,124 to a UK private collector against an estimate of £3,000–£5,000. Evening StandardN “Together they sold for £5,124 to a private collector in the UK following an estimated sale of £3,000–£5,000.”“The autographs were obtained by her father, Frank Duffy, who worked for the band’s security team during their first American tour in 1964.” Read at Evening Standard ↗
Centre · 1Chris Albury, director at Dominic Winter Auctioneers, said the competition showed that "the Beatles’ popularity remains as strong as ever" and that the key has a "remarkable provenance stretching back to 1965". Evening StandardN ““The level of competition we saw today demonstrates that the Beatles’ popularity remains as strong as ever.”“It has a remarkable provenance stretching back to 1965” Read at Evening Standard ↗
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- Evening Standard gives a detailed human-interest report on the sale, covering the house's history, the key's provenance and the auctioneer's comments.
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- Price against estimate, the key's provenance via a fan's letter, and the McCartney family history.
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“The original brass Yale house key sold at UK auctioneers Dominic Winter for three times its pre-sale estimate of £2,000-£3,000 to a private collector.” — Evening Standard
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- Irish Independent runs a short headline-led report that the key to McCartney's Liverpool childhood home sold at auction, with no price in the headline.
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“Key to Paul McCartney’s Liverpool childhood home sells at auction” — Irish Independent
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- The key to McCartney's childhood home in Liverpool sold at auction.
- The sale was by Dominic Winter Auctioneers.
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Key to Paul McCartney’s childhood home sells for more than estimate at auction
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Key to Paul McCartney’s Liverpool childhood home sells at auction
Neutral Brief headline reporting the sale of the key to McCartney's Liverpool childhood home.
- 7 Oct 22:40 First Evening StandardN Key to Paul McCartney’s childhood home sells for more than estimate at auction
- 8 Oct 08:15 +9h 35m Irish IndependentRC Key to Paul McCartney’s Liverpool childhood home sells at auction
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