A jacket worn by Ringo Starr during the filming of the 1965 Beatles movie Help! was sold Friday at a music-memorabilia auction for more than $46,500.
The black wool double-breasted suit jacket features a gray vertical
line pattern, six buttons on the front and four more buttons on each
cuff.
Ringo wears the jacket in a short scene in which he's worried about a
sacrificial ring given to him by the mysterious priestess Ahme that
he's unable to remove from his finger. Included with the jacket is a
certificate of authenticity, a letter explaining that the previous
owner was a friend of Starr's family and had been given the jacket in
the 1960s while visiting Ringo's family and a glossy photo of Starr
wearing the jacket in Help!
A number of other high-priced pieces of rock memorabilia also were
sold at the auction, held by the Boston-based RR Auction company. A Hard Day's Night album cover autographed by the four Beatles, which was auctioned for more than $30,200.
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