{"id":77196,"date":"2026-03-30T17:40:19","date_gmt":"2026-03-30T21:40:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.weberbooks.com\/kindle\/?page_id=77196"},"modified":"2026-04-04T14:20:30","modified_gmt":"2026-04-04T18:20:30","slug":"beatles-auctions-worth-watching-right-now","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.weberbooks.com\/kindle\/beatles-auctions-worth-watching-right-now\/","title":{"rendered":"Beatles Auctions Worth Watching Right Now"},"content":{"rendered":"

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1964 RARE U.S. \u2018CAN\u2019T BUY ME LOVE\u2019 PICTURE SLEEVE WITH 45<\/strong><\/h2>\n

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Current bid: $425.00 \u2014 27 bids \u2014 3 days remaining<\/em><\/p>\n

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Of all the commercially issued Beatles picture sleeves released by Capitol Records in 1964, the \u201cCan\u2019t Buy Me Love\u201d sleeve is the one that has always been the hardest to find. It was pressed only on the East Coast in limited numbers, and even in 1964\u2014when it was current\u2014it was not easy to get hold of. The reasons have never been entirely clear, but the result is a sleeve that serious collectors have chased for sixty years.<\/p>\n

This example is Capitol 5150 in VG+ condition, pairing the sleeve with a matching 45 that has near mint labels and VG vinyl. There is some aging and a light factory conveyor belt roller edge line on each side\u2014the kind of production artifact that confirms authenticity\u2014but no splits, no writing, and no tears. For a sleeve this scarce, VG+ is a grade that does not come along often.<\/p>\n

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1965 UK FAN CLUB CHRISTMAS FLEXI RECORD AND COVER WITH INSERT FLIER<\/strong><\/p>\n

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Current bid: $56.00 \u2014 8 bids \u2014 5 days remaining<\/em><\/p>\n

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Each year from 1963 through 1969, the Beatles recorded a special Christmas message exclusively for their official fan club members\u2014a flexi disc sent only to those who had paid their membership dues, never commercially released, never available in shops. These recordings were chatty, warm, occasionally musical, and utterly unlike anything the band released through official channels. They are primary documents of the Beatles in an unguarded mode.<\/p>\n

This 1964 UK example (Lyntone LYN 757) comes with the picture cover and the insert flier\u2014the complete package as it was mailed to fan club members in December 1964. The cover is VG+++ with a tape stain on the back top, the record is near mint, and the flier is VG with a split at the fold. For the year in question\u2014the height of Beatlemania, the band having conquered America\u2014this is a particularly resonant artifact.<\/p>\n

Signed (4) Index Card & Photo \u2014 Paul, Lennon, Ringo, George \u2014 PSA\/DNA AUTO<\/strong><\/p>\n

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Current bid: $1,938.00 \u2014 27 bids \u2014 2 days remaining<\/em><\/p>\n

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All four signatures, PSA\/DNA authenticated. That sentence does most of the work here. The Beatles signed as a complete group are among the rarest and most sought-after autograph lots in the hobby\u2014the window for obtaining all four was narrow, and the authentication market has made it increasingly possible to separate genuine examples from the flood of fakes that emerged in subsequent decades.<\/p>\n

PSA\/DNA certification provides the provenance assurance that the market requires for a lot at this level. Whether this goes into a frame or a vault, it represents a direct physical connection to all four members of the band at the height of their powers.<\/p>\n

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MID-1960s US MONO \u2018MEET THE BEATLES\u2019 LP w\/3 BMIs & RARER COVER VARIANT<\/strong><\/p>\n

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Current bid: $232.50 \u2014 25 bids \u2014 1 day remaining<\/em><\/p>\n

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Meet the Beatles is the album that broke American music open in February 1964, and the pressing variants it generated across Capitol\u2019s regional factories have kept collectors busy ever since. This Los Angeles pressing\u2014Capitol T-2047\u2014carries two features that push it into rarer territory: the record labels credit three songs to BMI publishing, and the cover is the variant with green \u201cBEATLES\u201d lettering on the front and no \u201cProduced By George Martin\u201d credit on the back. Most LA mono covers with green lettering do carry the Martin credit; this one does not, making it the less common of the two configurations.<\/p>\n

The small \u201c6\u201d on the lower right back confirms the LA factory origin. Cover is VG+++ with a minor push to the upper left corner causing a small spine fracture. Vinyl is VG+ with NM- labels, and a blue Capitol inner sleeve is included.<\/p>\n

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1967 H\u00f6fner Model 500\/1 Viola Bass \u2014 \u201cBeatle Bass\u201d \u2014 Super Clean in Original Case<\/strong><\/p>\n

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Current bid: $752.00 \u2014 22 bids \u2014 1 day remaining<\/em><\/p>\n

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The H\u00f6fner 500\/1 is one of the most recognizable instruments in rock history\u2014Paul McCartney bought his first one in Hamburg in 1961 because it was affordable, and the symmetrical violin-body design meant it looked acceptable played either right-handed or left-handed. He used it throughout the early years, through the Ed Sullivan appearance, through the touring years, and it became as visually synonymous with the Beatles as anything short of the logo itself.<\/p>\n

This 1967 German-made example comes from a Washington area estate, unpolished and untampered with\u2014exactly as it arrived. The wood finish is still truly beautiful after 55+ years, the neck straight and rock solid, all original H\u00f6fner pickups intact and functional (with some expected noise in the pots from age and dust), and the original period hard case included. There is even a celluloid \u201cfaux tortoise\u201d pick found tucked into the bridge pickup by the original owner\u2014the kind of detail that makes an estate instrument feel genuinely inhabited. The only missing piece is the pickguard.<\/p>\n

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(33 RPM – ITALY) PMCQ 31503 \u201cI FAVOLOSI BEATLES\u201d<\/strong><\/p>\n

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Current bid: \u20ac351.00 (approximately $403.97) \u2014 19 bids \u2014 3 days remaining<\/em><\/p>\n

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Italian Beatles pressings occupy a devoted corner of the international collecting world, and \u201cI Favolosi Beatles\u201d\u2014the second Beatles album as issued in Italy on Parlophone\u2019s PMCQ series\u2014is among the more difficult to find in good condition. This example has a Mint- cover, EX++ vinyl and spine, and Mint- labels on the rare bright red label variant with logos but without the Mecolico credit.<\/p>\n

Italian pressings from this period have their own pressing characteristics and label variations that repay close study, and the PMCQ 31503 in this configuration is genuinely difficult to locate. For collectors focused on the international market, this is the kind of lot that surfaces infrequently.<\/p>\n

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REVOLVER 1st UK 1966 Mono Press \u2014 WITHDRAWN TNK MIX -2\/-1 Parlophone<\/strong><\/p>\n

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Current bid: \u00a3185.00 (approximately $245.29) \u2014 20 bids \u2014 6 days remaining<\/em><\/p>\n

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This is the one that serious Revolver collectors specifically hunt: the first UK mono pressing of PMC 7009 carrying the withdrawn mix of \u201cTomorrow Never Knows.\u201d The matrix numbers XEX 605-2 \/ XEX 606-1 with mother\/stamper designations 5RA 1OP confirm it. The withdrawn Lennon mix of that track\u2014the most sonically radical thing on an already radical album\u2014was replaced in subsequent pressings, making the earliest copies the ones that document what the band and George Martin originally intended before someone decided it needed changing.<\/p>\n

The disc is graded VG+ with crisp, clean audio, the sleeve EX+ with some edge discolouration on the front, a sharp readable spine, and light handling marks on the back. Complete with the original Emitex poly inner. Play-graded on a Rega P3-24 with Rega Elys 2 cartridge.<\/p>\n

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RARE LOT OF ORIGINAL CONCERT TICKETS AND PROGRAMMES<\/strong><\/p>\n

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Current bid: \u00a3121.52 (approximately $161.12) \u2014 10 bids \u2014 5 days remaining<\/em><\/p>\n

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Paper ephemera from the Beatles\u2019 live performance years is among the most evocative material in the hobby\u2014these were objects held by people who were actually in the room. This lot contains four original tickets and multiple programmes across several landmark events: the Christmas Show 1963\/64 at Finsbury Park Astoria, the Christmas Show 1964\/65 at Hammersmith Odeon, the New Musical Express All Star Concert of April 26th 1964, and a Ready Steady Go \u201cMod Ball\u201d ticket from April 8th 1964. All four tickets are mounted on a scrapbook page, preserved as a unit by someone who understood what they had.<\/p>\n

The NME concert in particular\u2014one of the annual poll-winners concerts that the Beatles headlined through the mid-sixties\u2014was a significant event in the British pop calendar. The Christmas shows at the Astoria and Odeon were elaborate theatrical productions the band mounted specifically for their fan club members. These are not reproductions or programmes alone\u2014these are the actual admission tickets, held by someone who used them.<\/p>\n

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The Beatles White Album Volume Two \u2014 4 Track Reel To Reel Tape<\/strong><\/p>\n

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Current bid: $122.50 \u2014 10 bids \u2014 4 days remaining<\/em><\/p>\n

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The White Album on 4-track reel to reel\u2014Apple Records L 2101 at 7\u00bd ips\u2014is one of those format artifacts that the streaming era has made genuinely exotic. In the late sixties and early seventies, reel to reel was the audiophile home listening format, and Apple Records issued several Beatles titles in this configuration for consumers who had invested in the equipment. Volume Two contains Birthday, Yer Blues, Mother Nature\u2019s Son, Helter Skelter, Long Long Long, Revolution No. 1, Sexy Sadie, Honey Pie, Savoy Truffle, Cry Baby Cry, Revolution No. 9, and Goodnight\u2014the second half of the double album in the original sequence. Play-tested and described as sounding great.<\/p>\n

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RARE 1964 \u2018THIS IS THE SAVAGE YOUNG BEATLES\u2019 LP<\/strong><\/p>\n

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Current bid: $100.00 \u2014 13 bids \u2014 4 days remaining<\/em><\/p>\n

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The Savage Young Beatles album (Savage BM-69) is one of the more colorful footnotes in American Beatles releasing history\u2014a 1964 budget label cash-grab that compiled early recordings and slapped the Beatles name on the cover during peak Beatlemania. Authenticating original copies requires knowing the key tell: the \u201cBM-69\u201d print in black on the upper right front cover. Fakes print it in red. This one is black, confirming it as a genuine original issue.<\/p>\n

The cover is VG- with two 1.25-inch splits at the top seam and a seven-inch fracture along the spine that hasn\u2019t fully separated. The vinyl is VG+ with near mint labels\u2014the record itself has held up better than the cover. For Beatlemania-era collecting that extends into the more obscure corners of the American market, the Savage label pressings have their devoted audience.<\/p>\n

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RARE \u2018MADE FOR EXPORT ONLY\u2019 UK \u2018IF I FELL \/ TELL ME WHY\u2019 45<\/strong><\/p>\n

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The \u201cMade for Export Only\u201d designation marks a category of UK Parlophone pressings manufactured specifically for distribution outside Britain\u2014and the catalog numbering confirms it immediately. Standard UK singles carried R-series numbers; this one is DP 562, the export series designation that sets it apart from anything sold in British shops. Export-only pressings were made in small quantities for specific overseas markets and rarely circulated widely even in those territories.<\/p>\n

Near mint labels, VG+ vinyl on both sides, and a VG original Parlophone company sleeve included. For specialists in UK Parlophone variants and pressing geography, the export series represents a genuinely obscure and rewarding collecting area.<\/p>\n

MAGICAL MYSTERY TOUR \u2014 Original 1967 Factory Sealed First Pressing<\/strong><\/p>\n

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Current bid: $406.00 \u2014 25 bids \u2014 2 days remaining<\/em><\/p>\n

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Factory sealed original pressings of major Beatles albums are the white whales of the hobby, and a 1967 first pressing Magical Mystery Tour that has never been opened is exactly that. This one is Capitol SMAL 2835 on the rainbow label, gatefold cover with booklet, sharp corners, no bumps, no creases, beautiful spine, no record wear, no ring\u2014and the breathe holes visible through the shrink, with the original price sticker intact. The description reads like a checklist of everything a sealed copy should be.<\/p>\n

Magical Mystery Tour sits in an interesting place in the Beatles catalog\u2014released at the end of 1967, it captures the band at peak psychedelic ambition, with \u201cI Am the Walrus,\u201d \u201cStrawberry Fields Forever,\u201d and \u201cPenny Lane\u201d among its contents. A sealed first pressing of this record, in this condition, is a time capsule from the most creative year in rock and roll history.<\/p>\n

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Paul McCartney Autographed Signed Cut \u2014 BAS AUTO<\/strong><\/p>\n

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Current bid: $1,175.00 \u2014 13 bids \u2014 1 day remaining<\/em><\/p>\n

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A vintage Paul McCartney signature with Beckett Authentication Services certification. McCartney autographs span six decades of availability and vary considerably in character across different periods of his career\u2014a vintage example carries both the scarcity premium of an earlier signature and the aesthetic quality that collectors tend to prefer over more recent examples signed quickly at events.<\/p>\n

BAS is one of the two major third-party authentication services that the market trusts, and their certification provides the documentation that any serious autograph purchase requires. For a McCartney signature with clean provenance, the Probstein auction house platform provides an established venue with a track record the bidding history reflects.<\/p>\n