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Ringo Starr
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Ringo Starr

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Ringo Starr
A warrant to Ringo Starr Esquire (Richard Starkey Esquire) appointing him an Ordinary Member of the Civil Division of the Most Excellent Order of the British Empire, dated 12the June, 1965, bearing mimeographed facsimile signatures of H.M. Queen Elizabeth and Prince Philip as Grand Master -- 15¼x12¾in. (38.7x32.4cm.)
出版
COLEMAN, Ray John Ono Lennon, London: Sidgwick & Jackson, 1984
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拍品专文

The vendor acquired this warrant in the 1970s from a relative of Ringo Starr's former secretary, who told him she had been given the warrant by Ringo.

News of The Beatles' MBE awards broke on the morning of Saturday, 12th June, 1965. The investiture took place at four months later at Buckingham Palace on Tuesday, 26th October. John Lennon later returned his MBE amid much publicity four years later, in a letter to Buckingham Palace he stated his reasons as a ...protest against Britain's involvement in the Nigeria-Biafra thing, against our support of America in Vietnam, and against 'Cold Turkey' slipping down the charts', and signed it With Love, John Lennon of Bag