A bookcase Macca made

A bookcase built by a young Paul McCartney is set to be sold at a Beatles auction. Macca made the furniture while a student at Liverpool Institute in the 1960s. The black, teak wood cabinet has been authenticated by Steven Bailey at the Beatles Shop in Mathew Street, who looks after the popular Fab Four convention sales each year.He said: " We have had some very strange things arrive year in and year out - but this has to be the most unusual."It comes from Paul's family home in Forthlin Road and is accompanied by two letters detailing its origins."The 50-year-old bookcase has no estimated price as the auction overseers do not have anything else to base its value on.The bookcase will be auctioned in the Paul McCartney Auditorium at Lipa during the Beatle Festival on Saturday,Was plectrum Lennon's? This mysterious piece of plastic could be one of the earliest creations of Beatle John Lennon.Today the guitar plectrum was going on display at Lennon's childhood home, Mendips, after being loaned to the National Trust by a former owner of the Woolton house called Mr Arnall.His parents bought Mendips from Mimi Smith, John Lennon's aunt. Lennon lived at Mendips from 1945 until 1963.The new owners claim to have found a cupboard left behind by Mimi when she moved out. Inside, they discovered a home-made guitar plectrum.
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