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John Lennon
John Lennon's childhood stamp album, circa 1950, the album with green cloth covers titled Mercury Stamp Album on upper cover, the fly leaf inscribed in Lennon's young hand with his name and address John Lennon, 251 Menlove Avenue, Woolton, Liverpool, signed again by Lennon in blue ballpoint pen on the lower half of the page and on the top left corner with three 'practice' signatures in pencil - his Christian name written once and his surname twice as he appears to work out the formation of his signature, the page additionally annotated by Lennon in blue ink and ballpoint with the number of stamps in the album, these figures crossed out and amended as the size of the collection fluctuated; the fly leaf additionally annotated with an almost indistinct inscription in Lennon's cousin, Stanley Parkes' hand in black ink, with his name and address in Fleetwood, this inscription, similarly in a young hand, appears to have been largely erased to suggest that perhaps Stanley, the elder of the two cousins, started the album off before it became Lennon's own collection - other inscriptions in black crayon in an unknown hand; accompanied by a reproduction of a black and white photograph of Lennon aged 7 -- 10x8in. (25.4x20.3cm.) (2)
John Lennon's childhood stamp album, circa 1950, the album with green cloth covers titled Mercury Stamp Album on upper cover, the fly leaf inscribed in Lennon's young hand with his name and address John Lennon, 251 Menlove Avenue, Woolton, Liverpool, signed again by Lennon in blue ballpoint pen on the lower half of the page and on the top left corner with three 'practice' signatures in pencil - his Christian name written once and his surname twice as he appears to work out the formation of his signature, the page additionally annotated by Lennon in blue ink and ballpoint with the number of stamps in the album, these figures crossed out and amended as the size of the collection fluctuated; the fly leaf additionally annotated with an almost indistinct inscription in Lennon's cousin, Stanley Parkes' hand in black ink, with his name and address in Fleetwood, this inscription, similarly in a young hand, appears to have been largely erased to suggest that perhaps Stanley, the elder of the two cousins, started the album off before it became Lennon's own collection - other inscriptions in black crayon in an unknown hand; accompanied by a reproduction of a black and white photograph of Lennon aged 7 -- 10x8in. (25.4x20.3cm.) (2)
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