Beatles balustrade sold at Dorset auction (From Bournemouth Echo)

Beatles balustrade sold at Dorset auction

8:28am Tuesday 2nd June 2009

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A piece of Beatles history which went under the hammer in Bournemouth is thought to have sold for £750.

A wrought iron balustrade said to have been commissioned by John Lennon for his Aunt Mimi’s Sandbanks home was auctioned by House and Sons Auctioneers on Wednesday.

They told the Daily Echo the purchaser didn’t wish anything to be made public, but they confirmed the railings did sell.

The lot was accompanied by a newspaper clipping from the letters pages of the Daily Mail, from a woman who bought the railings when the bungalow was bulldozed in 1994.

She said Lennon decided to create a balcony for his aunt “to watch the boats go by”, and commissioned the balustrade with a design incorporating seven hearts “to show how much he loved her”.

Lennon bought Harbour’s Edge as a sanctuary for his beloved Aunt Mimi Smith during the height of Beatlemania in the 1960s and she lived there until her death in 1991.

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