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| Lennon's toilet fetches $20,000 |
| 2010-08-30 |
| What's with this fascination with famous people's toilets? A toilet that belonged to late Beatle John Lennon fetched 9,500 pounds (NZ$20,730) at auction on Saturday, around 10 times its estimate, the sale organizers said. Lennon, who was murdered in New York in 1980, had the porcelain lavatory removed from Tittenhurst Park in Berkshire, southern England, where he lived from 1969 to 1971, and replaced with a new one. Builder John Hancock stored it in his shed for 40 years until he died recently and the lavatory was sent for sale, British media reports said. The pre-auction estimate was 750 to 1,000 pounds. Anne-Marie Trace, who works at the Beatles Shop in Liverpool which organized the sale, said the high price paid had taken the organizers by surprise. "I think it's the most unusual item we've ever had in our auction," she told Reuters. The buyer was not identified but Trace said it was likely it was "going overseas." |
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| Posted by: Water Modem 2010-08-30 17:24 |
| #1 The doorman in my condo building told me that a few years before I moved in, my unit was leased by a film production company and was occupied by, among others, Dennis Weaver and Jennifer Connelly when they were in town filming. Wonder what I could get for my toilets? |
| Posted by: Graising Ulinter8671 2010-08-30 16:33 |