'E. Rigby' Document Nets $177k at Auction
Saturday, November 29, 2008
Proceeds benefit music therapy charity
A 1911 British payroll document that is believed by some to have inspired the Beatles hit "Eleanor Rigby," sold for $177,000 at auction on Thursday. The document, obscure until recently, features the name "E. Rigby," a scullery maid who had signed the item, essentially a time sheet, to receive her wages.
As we reported earlier in the week, the director of the company auctioning the document believes the woman who signed the payroll sheet is the same Eleanor Rigby buried in 1939 in a Liverpool graveyard next to the church where Paul McCartney met the young John Lennon.
Annie Mawson, the woman who sold the document, is the founder of Sunbeams Music Trust, a charity that provides music for therapeutic purposes. She told Reuters that the document was sent to her by Paul McCartney in 1990 in response to a request for money for the trust. The name Eleanor Rigby was also discovered on a grave at St. Peter's Church in Woolton, Liverpool, near McCartney's birthplace.
(Photo: Annie Mawson, founder and chief executive of Sunbeams Music Trust charity, poses with a page from a 1911 Corporation of Liverpool accounts book with an entry for E. Rigby, which just netted big money at auction. AP Photo/Sang Tan)
A 1911 British payroll document that is believed by some to have inspired the Beatles hit "Eleanor Rigby," sold for $177,000 at auction on Thursday. The document, obscure until recently, features the name "E. Rigby," a scullery maid who had signed the item, essentially a time sheet, to receive her wages.As we reported earlier in the week, the director of the company auctioning the document believes the woman who signed the payroll sheet is the same Eleanor Rigby buried in 1939 in a Liverpool graveyard next to the church where Paul McCartney met the young John Lennon.
Annie Mawson, the woman who sold the document, is the founder of Sunbeams Music Trust, a charity that provides music for therapeutic purposes. She told Reuters that the document was sent to her by Paul McCartney in 1990 in response to a request for money for the trust. The name Eleanor Rigby was also discovered on a grave at St. Peter's Church in Woolton, Liverpool, near McCartney's birthplace.
(Photo: Annie Mawson, founder and chief executive of Sunbeams Music Trust charity, poses with a page from a 1911 Corporation of Liverpool accounts book with an entry for E. Rigby, which just netted big money at auction. AP Photo/Sang Tan)
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