A fireman-style jacket once owned by John Lennon is to go on sale at auction.
The blue coat is believed to be the same garment the iconic musician
sported on the back cover of his and Yoko Ono's 1969 album Unfinished
Music No. 2: Life with the Lions.
Lennon left it on a coat hook at pal Jon Hendricks' home in New York
City in 1978, and Hendricks then gave it to a friend, Andrew B. Harvey.
No estimated sale price has been given for the item but previous
jackets belonging to the Beatles legend have fetched up to $200,000.
Harvey's certificate of authenticity states, "This British fireman's
coat once belonged to John Lennon. It was given to me in 1978 by Jon
Hendricks, my (then) common-law wife's uncle. Brothers Jon and Jeff
Hendricks... were involved in the art movement known as 'fluxism' as was
Yoko Ono. Through this they got to know the Lennons in the early
seventies...
"In 1978 we went to stay with Jon for a few weeks. He told me the
fireman's coat hanging in the hall had been left there by John Lennon
when he'd called in a few months earlier. I think that was the last time
he saw John Lennon... Jon asked me if I wanted the coat, as I was off
on a cross-country hitch-hiking trip and I didn't have one. I wore it
through a couple of hard years. It may well be the coat that John Lennon
is wearing on the back of the British album release (I think) as 'Life
With The Lions' - unless he had several of them. The picture shows John
and Yoko surrounded by British policemen, after John's drug bust."
The coat, which features epaulettes and silver-coloured metal
buttons, goes up for auction online via Nate D. Sanders on 29 April.
No comments:
Post a Comment