Lennon’s leather collar fetches £117,250 at auction
07/05/2004
A leather collar worn by the Beatle John Lennon during the late 1960’s fetched £117,250 ($210,644) at auction this week – more than eight times the expected sale price of between £10,000 and £15,000.
The sale at London-based Christie’s was the most successful pop auction in its history, making a total of £788,643.
Other items to go under the hammer were a Vox Kensington guitar used by Lennon and George Harrison, a suede jacket worn by Eric Clapton when he was a member of Cream and an early Elvis Presley
The leather collar, which was given to Alexis Mardas - Lennon’s “guru and best friend” during the late ’60s, was bought by a private collector in the
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