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RINGO ISTHE SHORT ONE
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(BEATLES, THE.) Poster Signed by each member: John Lennon * George
Harrison * Paul McCartney * Ringo Starr (additionally Inscribed in holograph below his
name: “5’7” [five feet, seven inches]”). The poster, showing four ink blots suggesting four
standing human figures, a reproduction of an artwork by D. Spence, 1964. 18x14 inches;
faint scattered dampstaining, horizontal fold through Starr’s signature (without loss), some
brittling and chipping and closed tears at all edges, printed “beatles” label mounted recto at
lower margin, notes written in unknown hand verso.
Np, [1964]
[4,000/6,000]
From the files of
Saturday Evening Post
Editor in Chief William A. Emerson, Jr., who was
Executive Editor when the
Post
featured the Beatles on its cover in the March and August issues of
that magazine.