This image was the top lot.
THIS 1964 photo of the Beatles on their first US tour was estimated to make $2,000 but in fact sold for $68,500.
It was taken by a then 18 year old photographer named Mike Mitchell. He had been granted a press pass. But the photographs were never published and he kept 400 negatives and contact sheets in a box for 47 years.
With encouragement from friends, he showed them to Christie’s. They selected 46 images. Partly becasue Mitchell as a photographer is relatively unknown Christie’s reckoned they would make $100,000 dollars.
The collection sold for $362,000.
See antiquesandartireland.com post for May 26, 2011.