Beatle Band's John Lennon's toilet fetched $ 14,740 @ Auction.

( Reuters ) Beatle fan has done what they does for the Role model.

A toilet that belonged to late Beatle John Lennon has fetched 9,500 pounds ($ 14,740) at an auction on Saturday, around 10 times its estimate, organisers said.

Lennon, 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.

The builders who took the white and blue lavatory away were told to "put some flowers in it or something", according to the auction catalogue.

Beatle Band's John Lennon's toilet fetched $ 14,740 @ Auction.

World's largest gold coin fetches $4m at auction.

The largest gold coin in the world has been sold for $4m (£2.6m) at an auction in Vienna.

The Maple Leaf coin measures 53cm (21in) in diameter, weighs 100kg (200lb) and is listed in the Guinness Book of Records.

The coin was bought by a Spanish precious metal company on Friday, the auction house Dorotheum said.

The auction had been ordered by the administrator of an Austrian investment group that had gone bankrupt.

World's largest gold coin fetches $4m at auction.

Picasso masterpiece auctioned in Britain .

A masterpiece from Picasso's "blue period" sold for 34.7 million pounds (.8 million) at a major auction of Impressionist and Modern Art at Christie's in London Wednesday.

The 1903 painting, Portrait of Angel Fernandez de Soto, had been expected to fetch between 30 and 40 million pounds at the evening sale, which Christie's said could yield a total of 230 million pounds.

However, the price for the Picasso, formerly owned by Andrew Lloyd Webber, Britain's foremost musical composer, remained well below expectations.

Christie's had billed the sale as the "most valuable art auction ever to take place in London."

Picasso masterpiece auctioned in Britain .

Uk rakes $225.6 Millions in Auctions.

An auction that included works by Pablo Picasso and Claude Monet raked in 152.6 million pounds (US$226.5 million) Wednesday night, setting a record for highest total ever realized in an British art auction, according to Christie's.

Picasso's "Portrait of Angel Fernandez de Soto, a 1903 Blue Period masterpiece, took the top price at nearly 35 million pounds ($51.6 million) -- nearly double what the previous owners, the Andrew Lloyd Webber Foundation, paid for it in 1995. An anonymous telephone bidder won the painting.

"Global bidders competed at this evening's auction and demonstrated that the art market continues to attract significant levels of spending, particularly for the rarest and most exceptional works of art," said Giovanna Bertazzoni, director of Christie's Impressionist and Modern Art division.

Uk rakes $225.6 Millions in Auctions.

Beatles' lyrics fetch $1.2 million at auction.

John Lennon's handwritten lyrics to the final song on the classic Beatles album "Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band" were purchased by an American collector on Friday for $1.2 million.

The winning bid for "A Day in the Life" was placed by phone at Sotheby's auction house, which declined to identify the collector further.

The price exceeded the pre-sale estimate of between $500,000 and $800,000.

The double-sided sheet of paper features Lennon's edits and corrections in his own handwriting - in black felt marker and blue ballpoint pen, with a few annotations in red ink.

Rolling Stone magazine listed "A Day in the Life" at No. 26 in its compilation of the 500 Greatest Songs of All Time and "Sgt. Pepper" won four Grammy awards in 1968.

Beatles' lyrics fetch $1.2 million at auction.