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Colchester schoolgirl’s Hendrix autograph sells for £2,000
By Shariqua Ahmed, BBC News, Essex
An autograph book that includes Jimi Hendrix’s signature – collected by a schoolgirl who bumped into him in the street – has been sold for £2,000.
Sara Bland, 70, originally from Colchester, was just 14 when she spotted the guitar legend wandering around Ipswich town centre.
She had gone to Ipswich with friends to see pop group The Walker Brothers, and they were hoping to get their signatures, but ended up meeting Hendrix instead. He was that night’s support act.
The book, auctioned on Saturday, had a guide price of £2,000 to £3,000. It sold for £2,000, just reaching the reserve price.
Mrs Bland, who now lives in the south of France, recently told the BBC she had decided to sell her autograph book after seeing another Hendrix autograph fetch £6,000 at auction in Scunthorpe.
She said: “I thought, I have something that might be valuable and I’m not looking at it or anything anymore, so why not sell it?”
When asked what she hoped to make from the sale, she added: “If it sells it sells, if it doesn’t it doesn’t, but whatever I get for it, jolly good. I’ll be quite happy.”
‘Fate was kind’
The book went under the hammer during a two-day antiques and collectables sale at Potters Auctions Saleroom at Messingham, near Scunthorpe.
Auctioneer Paul Potter said “fate was kind” on that day in Ipswich back in 1967.
He said: “They really wanted Walker Brothers autographs but got Hendrix.
“Walker signatures today sell for 50 quid or less. Hendrix, on the other hand, is rock star royalty – and his autograph makes four figures on the rare occasions when it comes up for sale.”
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