The Beatles guitar was sold for 408,000 dollars

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Yesterday in New York for $ 408 thousand dollars was sold at auction Music Icons Auction guitar on which two participants played The Beatles, - John Lennon and George Harrison.

The sale, organized by the auction house Julien's Auctions , held in New York, in Manhattan Hard Rock Cafe . Originally, the auction organizers planned to sell a guitar for no more than 200-300 thousand dollars. The man's name is not called the buyer .

The guitar was made ​​by Vox in 1966 , commissioned by Lennon. According to the organizers of the auction , Lennon and Harrison played on it during the making of the album in 1967 « Magical Mystery Tour ». In 1967, Lennon presented the instrument to his friend , Yanni Mardas /Yanni Mardas.

Over the past several weeks guitar was exhibited in a museum in Ireland. Earlier , a few years ago, it was sold at auction at Christie's auction house for around 100,000 dollars.