Love Me Do [4]

Auction description - 2022

THE BEATLES - LOVE ME DO 7" - ORIGINAL UK EMIDISC ACETATE RECORDING. Holy Grail time for Beatles collectors' worldwide with this original UK Emidisc (single sided) 7" acetate recording of the debut studio 45 from the fab four... With printed Emidisc label with handwritten 'Love Me Do 45RPM 5.10.62 The Beatles Parlophone". The acetate is in clean VG condition. Showing only a few rather light and minor surface marks, there is some light 'clouding' surface marks to the playing surface, this however is as stated only light and is not deterioration to the lacquer. The label is in sharp and clean condition. With '462AA' machine stamped on the non-playing side. With some marks to the non-playing side. An incredible piece of Beatles history

PROVENANCE: Obtained by the vendor from a 69 year old British lady who brought in 4 boxes of records to his shop to sell . She explained that her father Laurence Payne was in The Savoy Orpheans Band and later in the 50's and 60's was a session musician. Her mother had once had tea with The Beatles and she still had a signed photograph from them (she kept that). She could not tell me exactly how the acetates had come into her possession but that her father had lots of records and items given to him over the years. Record collector magazine ran a feature on these 2 acetates in 2017 and said "As for value you are looking at a small fortune as each acetate will fetch thousands of pounds as they really are incredibly sought-after items for Beatles collectors worldwide".

[Estimate : £4,000 - £6,000 Buyer's premium: 28.00% inc VAT ]

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