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Ringo Starr’s United Kingdom 1st pressing White Album No 0000001 is part of our auction on December 4th!
Each copy of the 1968 album initially came with its own serial number stamped on the cover, and the first four copies of the White Album belonged to each of the four Beatles.
The ex-Beatles copy of the famous album, which he stowed in a London bank vault for over 35 years, is numbered 0000001 – despite it being long assumed that John Lennon owned the first copy.
Julien’s Auctions, which is based in Beverly Hills and will take of the sale, estimates the record could fetch up to $60,000 when it goes under the hammer early next month. Copy No 0000005 of the album sold at an auction in 2008 for around $30,000.
It’s commonly known that The Beatles kept numbers 1 through 4, but many people don’t know that Ringo Starr has copy number 1, and now he’s selling it.
Starr is also auctioning off many items of jewelry, as well as art, clothes and instruments, including George Harrison’s Gretsch Tennessean guitar, which is expected to fetch up to $200,000. The album, listed on the website of LA auction house Julien’s, has already received three bids, with the current bid being Dollars 42,500.
Proceeds from the auction will benefit Starr and Bach’s Lotus Foundation, which raises money for various charity’s that focus on social welfare issues around the world.
