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 Starr is bidding farewell to items such as instruments,
career memorabilia as well as personal items .
Among them are seven stage and studio drums played by Starr,
including the first Ludwig Oyster Black Pearl drum kit used for
the Beatles' early recordings, including "Can't Buy Me Love" and
"I Want to Hold Your Hand".
Starr used the kit in more than 200 performances.
Last month, Julien's Auctions sold a drum head from a kit Starr
played on U.S. television show "The Ed Sullivan Show" in 1964
for $2.1 million.
"We've conservatively estimated this (Ludwig) kit for three to
five hundred thousand (dollars) but that was prior to knowing
what the drum head would sell for," Darren Julien, president and
chief executive of Julien's Auctions, said.
"So, today we'd probably estimate it two to four, three to five
million just because we think it's such a significant piece of
Beatles history."
Also for sale is a guitar used by John Lennon, which the late
Beatle gave to Starr.
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"(We) thought ... we've got lots of furniture, we've got lots of
cutlery ... and I thought let's make it really crazy and special ...
like John's guitar," Starr said at a cocktail party on Tuesday night
ahead of the auction. "It's been played twice."
Part of the sale proceeds will go to The Lotus Foundation, which was
founded by Starr and Bach and aims to fund and promote charitable
projects, Julien's Auctions said.
The auction runs from Thursday until Saturday in Beverly Hills and
also online via Julien Auction's website.
(Reporting By Reuters Television in Los Angeles; Writing by
Marie-Louise Gumuchian in London Editing by Jeremy Gaunt)
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