1964 UK Beatles real silver charm in the shape of a guitar beetle. 'The Beatles Yeah Yeah Yeah' cast into the back of a 1-inch long electric guitar. See below for details.
Condition excellent. See pics.
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Details:
While costume and novelty jewellery companies were signing contracts with the Beatles' management company to make official items of Beatles jewellery (see my other items), several 'proper' jewellers created casts to make their own gold and silver charms on a Beatles theme.
So the official items were fake metal while
these particular unofficial items were precious metal and sold for considerably
more.
This guitar charm was made by the same UK company that made the opening beetle charm (same style of writing) as shown in pic 6 and the articulated beetle-playing-guitar charm (same style of guitar) as shown in pic 7. (Pics 6 and 7 are included for information only and are not part of this auction.)
Those two charms were registered in late 1963, but this more simple one appears to have been produced a few months later when they proved popular. It doesn't come up on eBay quite as often, which indicated that it was produced in smaller quantities.
Please see my other items. I try to list items of Beatles merchandise every week or two, so if you're a collector, why not add me to your saved sellers list?
I will combine postage where possible.