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Antiques Roadshow guest claims they were ‘never paid’ for ‘remarkable’ job with The Beatles-Ruth Lawes-Entertainment – Metro
They were responsible for a one-of-a-kind piece of Beatles history.
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The Beatles’ first-ever logo was valued on Antiques Roadshow (Picture: Chris Walter)
An Antiques Roadshow expert joked a guest has ‘finally got paid 60 years later’ after creating The Beatles’ original logo for free.
The guest claimed they were ‘never paid’ for making the legendary band’s ‘first’ logo in 1962 as they got the design valued on the BBC show.
However, they said they were ‘good mates’ with the Fab Four at the time and they ultimately went for another design from Ivor Arbiter.
Now, though, the guest could cash in as expert Mark Hill estimated the logo – which he branded ‘remarkable’ – could fetch up to £15,000 in auction.
The guest brought the one-of-a-kind memorabilia to Sefton Park Palm House at The Beatles’ hometown, Liverpool, and explained its backstory.
They said they were approached by The Beatles to design a logo for Ringo Starr’s drum as they had been ‘quite close’ and the band had attended their 21st birthday.
Presenting the drawing, Mark remarked he could see faint annotations in pencil, with the guest stating they were amendments made by either Paul McCartney or John Lennon.
The guest said they were never paid for creating the logo (Picture: BBC)
‘They had to do their bit,’ the guest joked.
Mark then identified that the two banners had been produced for drums.
The gues replied: ‘Correct and Ringo didn’t want them on the drum, because it might interfere with recording they had to be able to come off.’
Stunned, Mark concluded: ‘So what we’re effectively looking at here are the very earliest logos ever produced for The Beatles with their band name on it. It’s quite a pair of objects.’
The Beatles ultimately decided against the guest’s design (Picture: BBC)
The Beatles went for a design that included the iconic dropped T (Picture: David Redfern/Redferns)
Mark then asked the guest if they were ‘upset’ The Beatles went with another logo, which featured the famous dropped T.
The guest insisted they were not bothered by the snub as they were ‘unbelievably busy’ at the time.
Mark commented: ‘So this was just another job for one of the most famous bands in history?’
‘We were Good mates at the time and they didn’t pay me, I might add,’ the guest continued. ‘Never.’
Mark valued the logo at a whopping £15,000 (Picture: BBC)
Laughing, Mark joked: ’60 years later you’ve finally got paid.’
The guest, however, said he had no intention of selling the print.
Last month, an ‘incredibly rare’ Beatles vinyl sold for thousands of pounds after being discovered at a charity shop.
The record was discovered to be a first pressing of the original masters of the band’s debut album Please Please Me from 1963.
A first pressing of The Beatles vinyl sold for over £4,000 (Picture: Cancer Research UK/PA Wire)
Cancer Research UK charity shop manager Jaime-Marie Madden, who works at the Enfield brand, found the vinyl and listed it on eBay.
After multiple bids, it sold for £4211.89.
Meanwhile, Sir Paul’s ‘£10,000,000’ stolen bass was found after going missing 50 years ago.
An appeal to find the 81-year-old music star’s 1961 Höfner 500/1 bass guitar had been launched last year in the hopes of finally tracking it down decades after it was stolen from the back of a van in London’s Notting Hill in October 1972.
Sir Paul’s stolen bass was also recently found decades later (Picture: Joe Maher/Getty Images)
Decades later, it was discovered in the attic of a family home, gathering dust.
According to The Lost Bass Project, they were able to follow the journey of the guitar from its theft to the landlord of a pub it was sold to locally afterwards before being able to ‘trace the bass over the years’.
‘As a result of the publicity someone living in a terraced house on the south coast of England remembered an old bass guitar that was in their attic,’ an update on the website explained.
‘They got this out and realised just what they had. Within days it was back with Paul McCartney!’
Sir Paul, who bought the guitar for £30 in 1961, had played the guitar in the group’s early days in Hamburg and over 250 times at the Caven Club, with the project’s website claiming it ‘was the bass that powered Beatlemania’.
Antiques Roadshow airs next Sunday on BBC One and iPlayer at 7pm.
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