John Lennon/Yoko Ono

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John Lennon/Yoko Ono
An autograph postcard, signed by John Lennon during the Bed-In For Peace, Amsterdam Hilton, 25-31 March 1969, frank-marked Amsterdam 31/3 1969 and addressed to Frans Huyboom in an unknown hand, signed in felt pen John Lennon and Yoko Ono in Lennon's hand and illustrated with self-portrait caricature doodles of himself and Yoko; accompanied by a document concerning the provenance
4x5½in. (10.5x14cm.) (2)

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Knowing their wedding in Gibraltar, March 20, 1969 would be a huge press event, John and Yoko decided to use the publicity to promote world peace, spending their honeymoon in the presidential suite (Room 702 at the Amsterdam Hilton Hotel) between March 25 and 31.

According to the vendor, who was 16 at the time, he sent a note to Lennon at the Amsterdam Hilton with a home-made stamped return postcard, asking him "Can you please sign the card, with a drawing?"

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