John Lennon Items Clean Up at Christie's Pop & Rock Memorabilia Auction

An auction at Christie's in London on Wednesday netted huge bids for numerous items from the late John Lennon.

Topping the list is a 1958 Hofner Senator acoustic guitar with an accompanying note from 1982 verifying the authenticity. The guitar sold for $337,226, drastically higher than the second highest selling item, a Harmony Stratotone guitar belonging to Brian Jones of the Rollings Stones c. 1963 that went for $130,208.

The top selling lots:

• John Lennon's 1958 Hofner Senator acoustic guitar - $337, 226
• Brian Jones' Harmony Stratotone electric guitar - $130,208
• John Lennon's hand drawn placard from the 1969 Monteal bed-in, signed by Lennon and Yoko Ono - $120,350
• John Lennon's photocopied and hand annotated lyric sheets (10) for the Imagine album - $41,075
• John Lennon's handwritten prose and poetry c.1964 - $26,699
• Beatles unpublished photographs (about 800) taken from 1968 forward by several fans - $26,699
• John Lennon pen and ink drawing, Randolph's Party - $24,645
• Beatles 45 of Hey Jude/Revolution from the Our First Four promotional single presentation pack with photo signed by all four - $22,591
• Beatles Please Please Me mono LP signed by all four - $22,591
• John Lennon pen and ink drawing, Figures Involved in a Meeting Around a Table - $20,538
• John Lennon pen and ink drawing, Liddypool - $19,511
• John Lennon pen and ink drawing, Sad Michael - $18,484
• Paul McCartney's 1970's Hofner 5000/1 Bass, signed by McCartney - $17,457
• John Lennon & Yoko Ono interview reel-to-reel tape with John Peel - $16,430
• Metallica's original artwork for their Ride the Lightning album - $15,403