Paul McCartney Halts Auction Of Cape, Suit And Lyric Sketch

Although the family of his former nanny says Linda McCartney had offered his articles, counsel for Paul McCartney said he would never give clothes

 
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Paul McCartney’s lawyers have stopped selling the clothes auction and lyrical sketches that were due to hit the block this week. Family now deceased, the maid and nanny Beatles Rose Martin, had established the elements - a cape and suit,

once worn by McCartney and a piece of paper with three lines of lyrics - but the Beatle said they were not theirs to sell. Martin's family had claimed that the late wife Linda McCartney gave them clothing, three decades ago, according to the Telegraph. They hoped to get £ 30,000 (about U.S. $ 49,500) of the auction to give grandchildren the maid.
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But McCartney and his team said that the items are not, in fact, belonging to the family of Martin. A representative of Omega Auctions - which is also auctioning using the Beatles! Jackets next to a piano McCartney and John Lennon played at that time - said that McCartney’s lawyers said the auctioneers that the Beatles would never have clothing. Because both Rose Martin and Linda McCartney are gone , we cannot confirm the truth.

"At the end of the day we have to ensure that, in accordance with the law, we give them back to their rightful owners, whether family or Rose Sir Paul McCartney and MPL Communications [McCartney Productions Ltd.],” Omega Paul Fair-weather said. “We can only apologize to all buyers who hoped to make an offer on these points.”

Was expected to pick up the cap between £ 10,000 and £ 15,000 (approximately $ 16,500 and $ 25,000), while the auction house had estimated the suit to £ 10,000. The lyric sheet contained the lines, "Baby, you might not have done anything worse for me, if you took an arrow and run through me," and was estimated to raise £ 1,000 to £ 2,000 ($ 1.650 to $ 3300).
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Grandchildren Martin would have used the clothes to “dress up “in the eighties, according to the Telegraph.

When Martin died last year, McCartney’s website posted the following tribute. "We had some sad news recently that our dear friend Martin Rose died at the age of 92 years Rose was my maid since the early sixties and for many years served us and our children. She was a very classy lady with a mischievous sense of humor. She was fiercely loyal and our family and many friends will miss her a lot. "

The auction goes without clothing items and includes hundreds of articles related to the Beatles, and his catalog is online. In 2012, the auction house sold before Elvis Presley's Bible for about $ 94,000 and offered underwear stained with the king, if they have not sold. A year before, he managed to find someone with an extra $ 31,000 to blow on a tooth of John Lennon.