Rare Beatles acetate, “A Hard Day’s Night,” sold for $2225 @Goldmine's record auction countdown

Thursday, April 7, 2011

Rare Beatles acetate, “A Hard Day’s Night,” sold for $2225 @Goldmine's record auction countdown

Nice guys finish first in Goldmine's record auction countdown | Goldmine Magazine

Price realized $2,225.99, The Beatles, “A Hard Day’s Night,” 12-inch Emidisc acetate.

Here’s a fairly rare Fab Four find: a 12-inch, double-sided, mono acetate for The Beatles’ “A Hard Day’s Night” album.

It features all 14 songs included on the final album. The seller graded it VG to VG- and says the acetate is free of skips and jumps, but it has some pops and background noises and a lot of light hairline marks all over. (If I was going to have a rarity like this, I’m not sure I’d ever want it to be played more than once to record a copy on CD or MP3.) The seller had little else to add, other than the lot included a certificate of authenticity from Beatles expert Perry Cox.

Seven bids were exchanged before a winner was declared.