Lennon’s toilet sold for $14,740 at UK auction

John Lennon’s toilet was sold for 9,500 pounds ($14,740) at auction on Saturday, around 10 times its estimate, the sale organizers said.

The late Beatle, who was murdered in New York in 1980, had the porcelain lavatory removed from Tittenhurst Park in Berkshire, southern England, where he lived from 1969 to 1971, and replaced with a new one while the builders who took away the white and blue lavatory were told to “put some flowers in it or something,” the auction catalog stated.

The toilet was among Beatles memorabilia sold at auction as part of the Beatle week festival in Liverpool, the group’s native city in northwest England. The pre-auction estimate was 750 to 1,000 pounds. The high price paid for the “most unusual item” on the auction had taken the organizers by surprise.

British media reports said builder John Hancock stored it in his shed for 40 years until he died recently and the lavatory was sent for sale.