London - When John Lennon bought a new guitar over 40 years ago, he could never have guessed that the instrument would bring him together with Paul McCartney or that one day it would be expected to fetch tens of thousands of pounds at a London auction house.
Yesterday, at the Hard Rock Cafe in London, Sotheby's announced that the Dutch-made Gallotone Champion acoustic guitar, bought by Lennon from a mail order catalogue in 1957, would be auctioned later this month, with experts predicting that it could fetch between £80,000 and £100,000.