A set of autographs by all four Beatles, scrawled on a birth certificate is expected to fetch up to £3,000 when it goes under the hammer at Dorchester.

Amy Brenan, a valuer at Duke’s auction house, in Dorchester, which is handling the sale, said: “When a local gentleman pulled out a tatty bit of paper from the pocket of his wax jacket, I was rather surprised he thought it was something special.”

She added: “When I unfolded the paper, I realised that the signatures where written in black ink on the back of the gentleman’s birth certificate.

“The gentleman told me that the only piece of paper he had on him was his birth certificate and so he asked the band to sign it for him.

“Needless to say that the gentleman now has a new birth certificate.”

Duke’s will auction the item at a specialist sale on April 10 and 11.

More info www.dukes-auctions.com

Posted: 03|18|08 at 9:54 am. Filed under: UK News.