Lot 110
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THE BEATLES: AN RIAA SALES AWARD FOR 'I WANT TO HOLD YOUR HAND'
THE BEATLES: AN RIAA SALES AWARD FOR 'I WANT TO HOLD YOUR HAND'
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THE BEATLES: AN RIAA SALES AWARD FOR 'I WANT TO HOLD YOUR HAND'

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THE BEATLES: AN RIAA SALES AWARD FOR 'I WANT TO HOLD YOUR HAND'
A white matte RIAA certified 'gold' sales award presented to The Beatles to commemorate the sale of more than one million copies of the 1963 Capitol Records single 'I Want To Hold Your Hand', inscribed verso on the brown backing paper by George Harrison in blue ink George, framed, housed in shadow box frame
17 x 12 ¾ in. (43.2 x 32.4 cm.)
Provenance
Property from The Collection of Ringo Starr and Barbara Bach, Juliens, Los Angeles, 3 December 2014, lot 635.

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Lot Essay

The Beatles were presented with RIAA gold awards to mark one million sales of the single ‘I Want To Hold Your Hand’ and more than one million sales of their album Meet The Beatles by Capitol Records president Alan Livingstone at the Plaza Hotel in New York on 10 February 1964, the day after their historic debut appearance on The Ed Sullivan Show. Released on 26 December 1963, ‘I Want To Hold Your Hand’ had sold over a million copies by 10 January and was certified gold on 3 February 1964.

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