A school book Sir Paul McCartney used as a teenager has sold for £46,800 – nearly 10 times its estimate.
The exercise book – which features a doodle of a man smoking and a teacher’s critical comments – sold at an auction of Beatles memorabilia in Newton-le-Willows, Merseyside.
Sir Paul, 76, used the exercise book at Liverpool Institute High School for Boys, where he was taught English literature by Alan “Dusty” Durband.
“I’d answer the question first before challenging its truth,” Mr Durband tells him on page three of the exercise book, from the 1959/60 school year.
But the teenager, 17 or 18 at the time, showed promise, achieving marks from B- to B++ for his work.
They sold for £9,600 while a suit worn by Lennon went for £4,800.
A cassette of George Harrison songs went unsold.
The tape, containing previously unheard tracks written and recorded in 1978, was estimated to fetch £3,000.
A street sign from Abbey Road, where the Beatles recorded their most famous albums, sold for £4,800 while a business card for The Quarrymen fetched £3,600.
The band, a forerunner of the Beatles, was fronted by Lennon and later included McCartney and Harrison.
