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A special edition airline menu signed by all The Beatles on their 1964 tour to New Zealand is among rare Fab Four memorabilia up for auction.
Three Timaru sisters have decided to put the signed Teal menu, a 1964 Teal airline bag, a postcard sent in 1964, and a souvenir tile with sketches of the four Beatles up for sale, with bids to start at $20,000 the Timaru Herald reported today.
The trio's grandparents were on a flight sitting next to drummer Ringo Starr during the tour and the memorabilia had stayed in the family until now -- it was too hard to decided who should get to keep it.
"My grandparents didn't even know they were going to be on the same plane but they wrote back saying Ringo had sat close by and he had two rings on. They believed he owned a thousand," one sister said.
The Trade Me auction ends next Wednesday.
- NZPA
